A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia's Era of Identity Politics : reframing hegemonic and fragmented identities through subjective in-betweenness /
Rode Molla.
- 1 online resource
- Emerging perspectives in pastoral theology and care .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians' in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories. Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity. On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment, belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and complexity"--
9781666922899
2022044265
Pastoral theology--Ethiopia. Political theology--Ethiopia. Identity politics--Ethiopia. Religion and politics--Ethiopia. Ethnic relations--Ethiopia. Postcolonialism--Ethiopia.