Re-imagining Sacred Texts: Recognizing the Ways in Which Protests, Tattoos, and Hashtags Constitute Vibrant Articulations of the Christian Faith
The comment has been made about contemporary modalities of protest that they are "loud, raucous and at times profane, but nonetheless righteous." This paper argues that during the course of the social justice movement of recent years, the public assembly of bodies during protests, the wa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Black theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-74 |
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Confession
B Sacred Texts B hashtags B Protests B tattoos B Christianity |
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| Summary: | The comment has been made about contemporary modalities of protest that they are "loud, raucous and at times profane, but nonetheless
righteous." This paper argues that during the course of the social justice movement of recent years, the public assembly of bodies during protests, the ways in which the bodies of those assembled are marked through tattooing, and the activists' speeches during protests, which have the character of the rhetoric of Confession, and are all ways in which the twenty-first century has birthed new constructions of sacred text - new ways of communicating divine truth authoritatively. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2020.1725265 |