Authors: James Bernauer (Editor), Jeremy R. Carrette, Jeremy Carrette
ISBN-13: 9780754633549, ISBN-10: 0754633543
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Michel Foucault and Theology brings together a selection of essays by leading Foucault scholars on a variety of themes within the history, thought and practice of theology. Revealing the diverse ways that the work of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) has been employed to rethink theology in terms of power, discourse, sexuality and the politics of knowledge, the authors examine power and sexuality in the church in late antiquity (Castelli, Clark, Schuld), raise questions about the relationship between theology and politics (Bernauer, Leezenberg, Caputo), consider new challenges to the nature of theological knowledge in terms of Foucault's critical project (Flynn, Cutrofello, Beadoin, Pinto) and rethink theology in terms of Foucault's work on the history of sexuality (Carrette, Jordan, Mahon). This book demonstrates, for the first time, the influence and growing importance of Foucault's work for contemporary theology.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: The Enduring Problem: Foucault, Theology and Culture | 1 | |
1 | Interpretations of Power in 1 Corinthians | 19 |
2 | Foucault, the Fathers and Sex | 39 |
3 | Augustine, Foucault and the Politics of Imperfection | 57 |
4 | Michel Foucault's Philosophy of Religion: an Introduction to the Non-Fascist Life | 77 |
5 | Power and Political Spirituality: Michel Foucault on the Islamic Revolution in Iran | 99 |
6 | On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics and the Night of Truth in Foucault | 117 |
7 | Partially Desacralized Spaces: the Religious Availability of Foucault's Thought | 143 |
8 | Exomologesis and Aesthetic Reflection: Foucault's Response to Habermas | 157 |
9 | From Singular to Plural Domains of Theological Knowledge: Notes Toward a Foucaultian New Question | 171 |
10 | The More Which Exceeds Us: Foucault, Roman Catholicism and Inter-faith Dialogue | 191 |
11 | Beyond Theology and Sexuality: Foucault, the Self and the Que(e)rying of Monotheistic Truth | 217 |
12 | Sodomites and Churchmen: the Theological Invention of Homosexuality | 233 |
13 | Catholic Sex | 245 |
Name Index | 267 | |
General Index | 271 |