Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Lived experiences of Ethiopians : how religion, politics, and theology shape the identity and Hhstory of Ethiopians as a modern nation -- Decolonizing identity politics -- From holistic theology to in-between theology -- In-between pastoral care : reframing fragmented and hegemonic identities through subjective in-betweeness -- In-between praxes : a pragmatic move to co-create in-between spaces.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Emerging perspectives in pastoral theology and care
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