Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide. It offers a diachronic study of the relationship between theological forms of witnessing within the Jewish and Christian traditions and public forms of witnessing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Autorentext

Jane Barter is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Klappentext

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide. It offers a diachronic study of the relationship between theological forms of witnessing within the Jewish and Christian traditions and public forms of witnessing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Testimony as Lament 2. L'homme/La femme M*é*moire: The Witness as Bearer of History 3. L'Homme/La Femme Blessé(e): The Wounded Subject 4. L'Homme/La Femme Réconcilié(e): The Reconciled Subject 5. The Witness as Remnant Afterword Bibliography Index