Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience

ISBN-13: 9780754633532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Bernauer, James

Opis

The essays that make up this volume reveal how Foucault's writings show the significance of his analysis of culture for consideration of religion in general and Christian practices in particular. His influence was so powerful that his book on Christianity and sex was prohibited as a posthumous publication.

Recenzje

'This book is timely, bringing to our attention an excellent range of essays from the past decade. Anyone interested in Foucault will find it a valuable resource. It explores the way in which the matrix of knowledge and power functions in Christian attitudes towards the body, marriage, sexuality, spirituality, theological knowledge and ecclesiastical authority.' Hugh Rayment-Pickard in The Church Times 'There's plenty here to provoke, delight and entertain. Evidently Foucault is of great relevance to theology, especially when theorizing power, truth and human identity.' Theology ’... succeeds as both an introduction to and a scholarly advancement of its subject-matter. Non-specialists will appreciate the inclusion of expository essays that provide jargon-free access not only to the religious relevant facets of Foucault's work, but also to the general contours and key terminology of his overall project... As for new developments, the volume pays welcome attention throughout [...] to the religious and political significance of the tradition of Christian asceticism, an often neglected facet of the Western theological heritage to which Foucault himself paid careful attention late in his career.’ Scottish Journal of Theology

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: The enduring problem: Foucault, theology and culture, James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette; Foucault and the Church in late antiquity: Interpretation of power in 1 Corinthians, Elizabeth A. Catelli; Foucault, the Fathers and sex, Elizabeth A. Clark; Augustine, Foucault and the politics of imperfection, J. Joyce Schuld; Foucault, politics and theology: Michel Foucault's philosophy of religion: an introduction to the non-fascist life, James Bernauer; Power and political spirituality: Michel Foucault on the Islamic revolution in Iran, Michiel Leezenberg; On not knowing who we are: madness, hermeneutics and the night of truth in Foucault, John D. Caputo; Foucault and theological knowledge: Partially desacralized spaces: the religious availability of Foucault's thought, Thomas R. Flynn; Exomologesis and aesthetic reflection: Foucault's response to Habermas, Andrew Cutrofello; From singular to plural domains of theological knowledge: notes toward a Foucaultian new question, Thomas Beaudoin; The More which exceeds us: Foucault, Roman Catholicism and inter-faith dialogue, Henrique Pinto; Foucault, theology and sexuality: Beyond theology and sexuality: Foucault, the self and the que(e)rying of monotheistic truth, Jeremy Carrette; Sodomites and churchmen: the theological invention of homosexuality, Mark D. Jordan; Catholic sex, Michael Mahon; Indexes.

O autorze

James Bernauer is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA; Jeremy Carrette is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling, UK