03875nam 2200745 a 450 991045250480332120211005083348.00-8232-5392-90-8232-5391-00-8232-6093-30-8232-5394-50-8232-5393-710.1515/9780823253937(CKB)2550000001123617(EBL)3239848(SSID)ssj0000981390(PQKBManifestationID)11505167(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981390(PQKBWorkID)10972922(PQKB)10894512(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292606(MiAaPQ)EBC3239848(OCoLC)859154640(MdBmJHUP)muse27531(DE-B1597)554971(DE-B1597)9780823253937(MiAaPQ)EBC1426700(Au-PeEL)EBL3239848(CaPaEBR)ebr10747403(CaONFJC)MIL525334(OCoLC)859158976(OCoLC)962450530(MiAaPQ)EBC4703346(Au-PeEL)EBL4703346(EXLCZ)99255000000112361720130412d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpirit and the obligation of social flesh[electronic resource] a secular theology for the global city /Sharon V. Betcher1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20141 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-5390-2 1-299-94083-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Crip/tography -- 2. “Fearful Symmetry”: Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics -- 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants -- 4. In the Ruin of God -- 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh -- 6. “Take My Yoga Upon You” (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.Here theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but—contrary to the new profit economy of the time—with a different locus of value: spirit.Betcher argues that for seculars today the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, still remains. Spirit now names a necessary “prosthesis,” a locus for regenerating the elemental commons of our interdependent flesh and thus for cultivating spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity.Her theological poetics, though based in Christianity, are frequently in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities.GlobalizationReligious aspectsCities and townsReligious aspectsElectronic books.GlobalizationReligious aspects.Cities and townsReligious aspects.202.09173/2Betcher Sharon V.1956-1012973MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452504803321Spirit and the obligation of social flesh2473121UNINA