Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space
Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners. In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis argues that sermons have a role in shaping the identity and ethics of listeners by helping them formulate responses to empire and colonization. Travis employs postcolonial theories to provide important insights for the practice of preaching today. She also turns to the social doctrine of the Trinity to offer a vision of the divine/human community that effectively deconstructs colonizing discourse. This book offers preachers and other practical theologians a gentle introduction to colonial history, postcolonial theories, and Social Trinitarian theology, while equipping them with tools to decolonize preaching and strategies for preventing, resisting, and responding to colonizing discourse. Travis effectively casts a vision of a "perichoretic space" in which preacher and listener encounter the living God-in-Trinity and are transformed, reconciled, and sent out to others in the church and beyond.
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Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space
Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners. In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis argues that sermons have a role in shaping the identity and ethics of listeners by helping them formulate responses to empire and colonization. Travis employs postcolonial theories to provide important insights for the practice of preaching today. She also turns to the social doctrine of the Trinity to offer a vision of the divine/human community that effectively deconstructs colonizing discourse. This book offers preachers and other practical theologians a gentle introduction to colonial history, postcolonial theories, and Social Trinitarian theology, while equipping them with tools to decolonize preaching and strategies for preventing, resisting, and responding to colonizing discourse. Travis effectively casts a vision of a "perichoretic space" in which preacher and listener encounter the living God-in-Trinity and are transformed, reconciled, and sent out to others in the church and beyond.
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Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

by Sarah Travis
Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

Decolonizing Preaching: Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space

by Sarah Travis

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Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners. In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis argues that sermons have a role in shaping the identity and ethics of listeners by helping them formulate responses to empire and colonization. Travis employs postcolonial theories to provide important insights for the practice of preaching today. She also turns to the social doctrine of the Trinity to offer a vision of the divine/human community that effectively deconstructs colonizing discourse. This book offers preachers and other practical theologians a gentle introduction to colonial history, postcolonial theories, and Social Trinitarian theology, while equipping them with tools to decolonize preaching and strategies for preventing, resisting, and responding to colonizing discourse. Travis effectively casts a vision of a "perichoretic space" in which preacher and listener encounter the living God-in-Trinity and are transformed, reconciled, and sent out to others in the church and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630876623
Publisher: Cascade Books
Publication date: 11/13/2014
Series: Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching Series , #6
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Sarah Travis is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. She teaches worship and preaching at Knox College, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I The Omnipresence of Empire

1 Coming to Terms with Empire 13

2 The Challenge of Preaching in the Midst of Empire 31

Part II Developing an Alternative Discourse

3 A Theological Response to Empire 53

4 Postcolonial Theory for Preachers 72

Part III A Toolbox for Decolonizing Preaching

5 Preaching with a Postcolonial Imagination 89

6 Rereading Scripture: Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation 109

7 Preaching in Trinitarian Embrace 127

Bibliography 145

Index 153

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