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Decolonial Love : Salvation in Colonial Modernity by Baldwin, James;Drexler-Dreis, Joseph;Fanon, Frantz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Bringing together theologies of liberation and decolonial thought, Decolonial Love interrogates colonial frameworks that shape Christian thought and legitimize structures of oppression and violence within Western modernity. In response to the historical situation of colonial modernity, the book offers a decolonial mode of theological reflection and names a historical instance of salvation that stands in conflict with Western modernity. Seeking a new starting point for theological reflection and praxis, Joseph Drexler-Dreis turns to the work of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin. Rejecting a politics of inclusion into the modern world-system, Fanon and Baldwin engage reality from commitments that Drexler-Dreis describes as orientations of decolonial love. These orientations expose the idolatry of Western modernity, situate the human person in relation to a reality that exceeds modern/colonial significations, and catalyze and authenticate historical movement in conflict with the modern world-system. The orientations of decolonial love in the work of Fanon and Baldwin--whose work is often perceived as violent from the perspective of Western modernity--inform theological commitments and re

Who reads Decolonial Love : Salvation in Colonial Modernity?

Author

Baldwin, James;Drexler-Dreis, Joseph;Fanon, Frantz

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823281893

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Criticism, Christian