Colby Dickinson: The Fetish of Theology
The Fetish of Theology
Buch
- The Challenge of the Fetish-Object to Modernity
- Springer International Publishing, 03/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783030407773
- Bestellnummer: 10467869
- Umfang: 304 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 21001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
- Gewicht: 396 g
- Maße: 210 x 148 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.3.2021
- Serie: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
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Klappentext
By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and / or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objects anthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves. Colby Dickinson
The Fetish of Theology
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