Overview
- Offers a post-colonial theological resource, in the context of growing multiculturalism in the West
- Provides a methodological interpretative key in addressing life after empire
- Brings together voices from different places and contexts
Part of the book series: Postcolonialism and Religions (PCR)
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This book addresses the challenges of living together after empire in many post-colonial cities. It is organized in two sections. The first section focuses on efforts by people of multiple faiths to live together within their contexts, including such efforts within a neighborhood in urban Manchester; the array of attempts at creating multi-faith spaces for worship across the globe; and initiatives to commemorate divisive conflict together in Northern Ireland. The second section utilizes particular postcolonial methods to illuminate pressing issues within specific contexts—including women’s leadership in an indigenous denomination in the variegated African landscape, and baptism and discipleship among Dalit communities in India. In the context of growing multiculturalism in the West, this volume offers a postcolonial theological resource, challenging the epistemologies in the Western academy.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book goes beyond dialogue to explore solidarity between people of multiple faiths living in diverse contexts after empire. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it makes a critical contribution to political theology from a postcolonial perspective. I highly recommend it.” (Kwok Pui-lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology)
“Well aware of the continued reality of empire and determined to avoid the freezing of colonial relations, this volume takes a leap of faith: it imagines, witnesses and testifies to life after empire. In it, voices of faith from post-colonial cities testify to lived de-colonial realities. They speak to a shared effort to transform the book title’s question mark into an exclamation mark.” (Wietske de Jong-Kumru, Professor of Protestant Theology, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jonathan Dunn is Lecturer in Theological Ethics at the University of Chester.
Heleen Joziasse served as lecturer at St. Paul’s University, Limuru. She currently works for Mara Foundation in The Hague.
Raj Bharat Patta received his PhD from the University of Manchester. His research focuses on subaltern public theology.
Joseph F. Duggan is Founder and Chair Emeritus of Postcolonial Networks and Borderless Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiple Faiths in Postcolonial Cities
Book Subtitle: Living Together after Empire
Editors: Jonathan Dunn, Heleen Joziasse, Raj Bharat Patta, Joseph Duggan
Series Title: Postcolonialism and Religions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17144-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17143-8Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17146-9Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17144-5Published: 01 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2312
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 164
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Society, Development and Post-Colonialism, Philosophy of Religion