RT Article
T1 The Cry of the Forgotten Stones
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 43
IS 2
SP 369
OP 407
A1 Omer, Atalia ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580188079
AB Based on extensive archival work, this essay assesses the contribution of a Palestinian liberation theology (PLT) to a comprehensive view of peacebuilding that involves not only liberation from oppressive occupation but also a holistic vision and strategy for attaining just societal structures. Emerging out of the victim's viewpoint, a PLT is consistent with a multiperspectival approach to justice. It articulates a call for a holistic transformation of the interrelations between Jews and Palestinians, envisioning a just peace that must entail a re-framing of geopolitical structures as well as ideological discourses that vindicate systemic and symbolic violence against the Palestinians. However, the author shows that a PLT is asymmetrical: while it challenges the theopolitical affinities between Christian and Jewish Zionists and the structural injustices and social mechanisms they endorse, it refrains from contesting the symbolic boundaries of a Palestinian national identity. This bears important implications for the broader debate concerning the role of religion in peacebuilding. The author argues that the limits of a PLT as a peacebuilding framework relate to its conceptual reliance on an unreconstructed secularist interpretation of a future Palestinian state and on its elective affinity with a supersessionist and theological orientation that, by definition, hermeneutically de-Zionizes the Bible and its interpretations.
K1 Palestinian liberation theology
K1 Sabeel
K1 Political Theology
K1 religion and conflict
K1 religion and nationalism
K1 religious peace building
DO 10.1111/jore.12101