Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society and Subversion

by Marion Grau

Overview

A progressive Christian approach to soteriology and missiology in a global, postcolonial context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567280886
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Marion Grau is Associate Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a member school of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Prologue / Chapter 1 - Reaching the Limit: Circumambulating the Frontiers of Civilizing Mission / Chapter 2 - Departures: Traversing Methodically / Chapter 3 - Waymarkers: Pattern Recognition Along the Way / Chapter 4 - Itinerary I: Converting Rome's Successors / Chapter 5 - Itinerary II: Going South: Zulus, Bishop Colenso, Hermeneutics and Salvations / Chapter 6 - Itinerary III: Regifting the Theological Present: Economies of the Exchange between Maori and Anglicans / Chapter 7 - In Transit / Chapter 8 - Holding Patterns / Chapter 9 - Aporias

Editorial Reviews

'This book makes a significant contribution to a disparate but slowly coalescing 'field'. What are we to make of 'mission' in a thoroughly postcolonial world, particularly when 'the colonies' are talking back? Marion Grau's contribution is significant in that it refuses to turn away from the 'mission' terrain, as many progressive scholars have, thereby surrendering the field to conservative voices. Instead she identifies the mutiplicity of borders and boundaries that constitute the postcolony and then explores what it means to 'do theology', progressively, across this disputed territory.' - Gerald West, Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research School of Religion and Theology University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.--Sanford Lakoff

'What an unpredictable adventure into the far places and pressing questions of the "Postcolony"! The theology that unfolds along its itineraries - carrying the trickster sprit and transdisciplinary rigor of Grau's first book - has an alternately exciting and erudite, tragic and hilarious energy. Brilliant in its critical compassion for the complex ambiguities of Christian mission, this work of "salvific subversion" and "entangled reciprocity" offers the first monographic test-case of a new and unapologetically polydox theology.' - Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, USA. Author of Face of the Deep: a theology of becoming and On the Mystery.--Sanford Lakoff

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