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Memory, Grief, and Agency

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58958-9

ISBN: 978-3-319-58957-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 15, 2017

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Chapter 1Introduction: Political and Theological Framework

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 1 –20

[Through anecdotes and examples, this chapter sketches an approach to wrongs and outlines the plan of the book. Dalit Christianity and theology are presented as helpful starting points for a political theological account that considers wrongs and delineates how an approach to wrongs encompasses...
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Chapter 2Wrongs and Formations of Violent Identities: Theorizing Caste and Race

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 21 –74

[This chapter offers an overview of the history and ongoing struggle of Dalits in India. Caste-based logic and oppression manifest themselves daily in the perpetration of wrongs, both in brutal and seemingly “ordinary” ways. The chapter theorizes wrongs as “rituals of humiliation.” Rituals of...
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Chapter 3Ethics of Corporeal Obligation: Grammar of the Body and Language of Wrongs

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 75 –111

[A language of wrongs is better articulated when attention is paid to grammar of human bodies. Wrongs described in Chap. 2 may thus be seen as violent modes, patterns, and formations of human bodies conditioned to move against each other in collective social life. Such socially conditioned...
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Chapter 4Theological Unease with Remembering Wrongs: Miroslav Volf and Oliver O’Donovan

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 113 –147

[Entering the world of victims and survivors to reorganize corporeal habits and frames of thinking is no easy task. This Chapter sets up the predicament by considering the theological case presented by Miroslav Volf and Oliver O’Donovan as they object to memory of wrongs. Both Volf and O’Donovan...
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Chapter 5Agential Roles of Memory and Grief: Internal and External Works (or Rites)

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 149 –184

[Chapter 5 shows how memory and grief over wrongs engender positive agency. The chapter notes the limitations of the stages-of-grief model in which the “back-to-normal” state is privileged, rather than allowing remembered loss to positively reorder self-identity. Privileging holding on to loss,...
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Chapter 6Wrongs and Rites: Rituals of Humiliation and Rites of Moral Responsibility

Boopalan, Sunder John

Pages: 185 –226

[This chapter begins by acknowledging how rituals of humiliation have been entangled with political and theological ideas. In laying bare such entanglements, the role of religion in constituting power relations is better understood. In this way, the chapter methodologically performs a kind of...

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