Violence, Entitlement, and Politics

This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender-based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement.

Autorentext

Steven G. Ogden is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is interested in politics and religion, as well as issues around gender, power, and violence. Previous publications include The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom (2017).

Inhalt

1 The problem of gender-based violence; 2 Theorizing violence, entitlement, and strongman politics; 3 Entitlement predisposing subjects toward controlling behaviour and violent actions; 4 Diverging trajectories: From Foucault and confession to transformation;5 A theology of transformation; 6 Transforming the subject; 7 6 January 2021: An epiphany of entitlement and the promise of transformation