A response to Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, "Religion, politics and the earth: the new materialism"
Crockett's and Robbins' significant and groundbreaking book falls short of a genuinely liberating future, one that can put in place alternative social and institutional forms to sustain a comprehensive freedom from structural domination. This major claim is sustained by tracing four defici...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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Political theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 390-404 |
| Review of: | Religion, politics, and the earth (New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) (Taylor, Mark Lewis)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Political theology
/ Political theory
/ Materialism
/ Liberation theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NCD Political ethics |
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Book review
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| Summary: | Crockett's and Robbins' significant and groundbreaking book falls short of a genuinely liberating future, one that can put in place alternative social and institutional forms to sustain a comprehensive freedom from structural domination. This major claim is sustained by tracing four deficiencies in the book: (a) its sanguine trust to a developmentalist sensibility that underestimates political antagonism; (b) another neglect of political antagonism in its trust to transformative powers of a “multitude” and its cooperative activity, (c) its failure to build social and political formation into its theory of emergent complexity, and (4) its failure in reflexivity, to interrogate the “we” discourse that proliferates in authors' senses of crisis and calls for transformation. |
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| ISSN: | 1462-317X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000118 |