LEADER 03819oam 22004575 450 001 9910806926803321 005 20240111170257.0 010 $a0-8232-8688-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286881 035 $a(CKB)4100000009938663 035 $a(DE-B1597)555024 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987165 035 $a(OCoLC)1130024211 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009938663 100 $a20200723h20192019 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrave attending $ea political theology for the unredeemed /$fKaren Bray 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Unbegun introductions --$tChapter 2. Unsaved time --$tChapter 3. Unproductive worth --$tChapter 4. Unwilling feeling --$tChapter 5. Unreasoned care --$tChapter 6. Unattended affect --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a?This is a book about what it would mean to be a bit moody in the midst of being theological and political. Its framing assumption is that neoliberal economics relies on narratives in which not being in the right mood means a cursed existence.? So begins Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed, which mounts a challenge to neoliberal narratives of redemption. Mapping the contemporary state of political theology, Karen Bray brings it to bear upon secularism, Marxist thought, affect theory, queer temporality, and other critical modes as a way to refuse separating one?s personal mood from the political or philosophical. Introducing the concept of bipolar time, she offers a critique of neoliberal temporality by countering capitalist priorities of efficiency through the experiences of mania and depression. And it is here Bray makes her crucial critical turn, one that values the power of those who are unredeemed in the eyes of liberal democracy?those too slow, too mad, too depressed to be of productive worth?suggesting forms of utopia in the poetics of crip theory and ordinary habit. Through performances of what she calls grave attending?being brought down by the gravity of what is and listening to the ghosts of what might have been?Bray asks readers to choose collective care over individual overcoming.Grave Attending brings critical questions of embodiment, history, and power to the fields of political theology, radical theology, secular theology, and the continental philosophy of religion. Scholars interested in addressing the lack of intersectional engagement within these fields will find this work invaluable. As the forces of neoliberalism demand we be productive, efficient, happy, and flexible in order to be deemed worthy subjects, Grave Attending offers another model for living politically, emotionally, and theologically. Instead of submitting to such a market-driven concept of salvation, this book insists that we remain mad, moody, and unredeemed. Drawing on theories of affect, temporality, disability, queerness, work, and race, Bray persuades us that embodying more just forms of sociality comes not in spite of irredeemable moods, but through them. 606 $aPolitical theology$zUnited States 606 $aSecularism$zUnited States 615 0$aPolitical theology 615 0$aSecularism 676 $a261.70973 676 $a261.70973 700 $aBray$b Karen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01599425 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806926803321 996 $aGrave attending$94021407 997 $aUNINA