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1 online resource (191 pages) |
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Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies |
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Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Reference works; 1. The Church and the problem of sovereign power; Thinking otherwise; The problem of sovereign power; The marginalization of the other in the life of the Church; The child as other: Sovereign power, child abuse, and the Catholic Church; The marginalizing effects of untested norms; Suspicious minds: on theologians inferring Foucault does not care about truth; Practical matters: orientation, major sources, key terms, chapter outline; Notes; Bibliography |
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2. Under Foucault's gaze: the subject, freedom, and power-knowledge conceptThe subject and the possibility of freedom; A meta-ethical perspective; Foucault's work; Foucault's subject; The mesh of power-relations; Power/knowledge: those who are charged with saying what counts as true; Truth matters: an epistemological note; Notes; Bibliography; 3. The concept of authority: guardians, gossip, and the sovereign exception; The aim of the case study; Epistemic hubris; The bishop as the guardian of knowledge; Gossip and the multi-layered nature of discourse |
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Authority, sovereignty, and the sovereign exceptionFocusing on the diocese; Notes; Bibliography; 4. The spell of monarchy and the sacralization of obedience; We still have not cut off the head of the king; Episcopal vocation: in the shadow of the king; Unrestricted unilateral power; The drive toward unitary discourse and uniform behaviours; Pastoral power and the sacralization of obedience; The elephant in the sitting room; Notes; Bibliography; 5. The Church as an open space of freedom; Introducing a spatial approach; Freedom; Culture change and new spaces |
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Ekklesia and the ethos of the Christian spaceNotes; Bibliography; 6. New spaces and the imagination; Developing a spatial approach; Foucault's spatial approach and the heterotopic imagination; The imagination; Imagining new spaces; Notes; Bibliography; 7. Bearing the lightning of possible storms: critique, space, imagination, wisdom; Possibilities; A Foucauldian disruption; An open space of freedom; Shared wisdom and mutual empowerment; Bearing the lightning; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317038207 |
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1317038207 |
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