Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human

by Joseph Drexler-Dreis (Editor), Kristien Justaert (Editor), Rufus Burnett (Contribution by), M. Shawn Copeland (Contribution by), Joseph Drexler-Dreis (Contribution by)

Overview

Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter’s questioning of modern/colonial descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such descriptions.

Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland, Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Méndez, Andrew Prevot, Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823286898
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joseph Drexler-Dreis (Edited By)
Joseph Drexler-Dreis is Assistant Professor of Theology at Xavier Universityof Louisiana.

Kristien Justaert (Edited By)
Kristien Justaert was postdoctoral researcher of systematic theology at Leuven University, Belgium. She is currently the director of an environmental nonprofit organization.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Projects of Unsettling Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert | 1

Part I: Sylvia Wynter and the Project of Unsettling Man

1. Where Life Itself Lives
Mayra Rivera | 19

2. Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme
Rufus Burnett Jr. | 36

3. Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures
Xhercis Méndez and Yomaira C. Figueroa | 60

Part II: Religious Cosmologies and the Project of Unsettling Man

4. Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved
M. Shawn Copeland | 91

5. Nat Turner’s Orientation beyond the Doctrine of Man
Joseph Drexler-Dreis | 113

6. Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved
Andrew Prevot | 134

7. African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial
Patrice Haynes | 161

Part III: Biopolitics and the Project of Unsettling Man

8. Bodies That Speak
Linn Marie Tonstad | 193

9. Life beyond the Doctrine of Man: Out of This World with Michel Henry and Radical Queer Theory
Kristien Justaert | 217

10. Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh
Alexander G. Weheliye | 237

Acknowledgments | 263

Bibliography | 265

List of Contributors | 289

Index | 293

Editorial Reviews

The contributions are deeply insightful, diverse, and serve as a fitting prolegomenon for further examination.-- "Religious Studies Review"

This interdisciplinary work moves from re-articulating the doctrine of man into a re-engagement with Christian theology in order to creatively and imaginatively present the reader with divinity in the flesh. Covering geopolitics and biopolitics and the matter of enfleshed resistance, Beyond the Doctrine of Man offers a challenge to theology from many sides, but a challenge it is meant to rise to, not buckle under. This is a remarkable book offering depth of academic analysis presented in an accessible manner.---Lisa Isherwood

From the Publisher

The contributions are deeply insightful, diverse, and serve as a fitting prolegomenon for further examination.

Religious Studies Review

This interdisciplinary work moves from re-articulating the doctrine of man into a re-engagement with Christian theology in order to creatively and imaginatively present the reader with divinity in the flesh. Covering geopolitics and biopolitics and the matter of enfleshed resistance, Beyond the Doctrine of Man offers a challenge to theology from many sides, but a challenge it is meant to rise to, not buckle under. This is a remarkable book offering depth of academic analysis presented in an accessible manner.

Lisa Isherwood