| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Postcolonialism and religions |
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Postcolonialism and religions.
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| Contents |
Approaching Mark -- Rereading discipleship -- Knowledge, body, and subjectivity in theoretical frameworks -- Asian and Asian American feminist hermeneutics of phronesis -- A phronetic reading of Mark -- Empire and body: bodies, territories, and language -- The phantasmic body (Mark 6:45-52) -- The consumed body (Mark 7:24-30) -- The passive body (Mark 7:31-37) |
| Summary |
In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus asks the disciples, 'Do you not yet understand?' Rereading the Gospel through the lens of Asian and Asian American feminist hermeneutics, Jin Young Choi interprets this 'understanding' as phronesis (embodied wisdom) rather than knowledge of Jesus' identity. Discipleship, Choi asserts, means embodying mystery. Amidst the Roman imperial construction of the colonized body, colonial subjects perceive, or are haunted by, Jesus' body as phantasmic, consumed, and passive. The mystery of Jesus' transcorporeal body disrupts the imperial presence, while conveying the subjectivity of othered bodies that are invisible, placeless, and voiceless in both ancient and contemporary postcolonial contexts. This postcolonial feminist rereading of Mark calls for an ethical relation with the single figure of the crucified for continued life-giving and meaning-making |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Mark -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Mark -- Feminist criticism -- Asia
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Bible. Mark -- Postcolonial criticism -- Asia
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Bible. Mark fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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Postcolonial criticism of sacred works
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Feminist criticism
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137526106 |
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1137526106 |
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9781137526137 |
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1137526130 |
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