Do Not Conform to the Patterns of this World! A Postcolonial Investigation of Performativity, Metamorphoses and Bodily Materiality in Romans 12

The coexistence of radically resistant body theology and unrestricted demands for submission in Rom. 12 and 13 presents a unique and unsettling dilemma for feminist and postcolonial exegetes and theorists. With a critical discussion of postcolonial hybridity theory and a turn towards – and back to –...

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VerfasserInnen: Auga, Ulrike 1964- (Verfasst von) ; Schirr, Bertram J. 1982- (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2014
In: Feminist theology
Jahr: 2014, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 37-54
weitere Schlagwörter:B postcolonial exegesis
B body theology
B Materiality
B metaphoricity
B St. Paul
B Performativity
B Hybridity
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Zusammenfassung:The coexistence of radically resistant body theology and unrestricted demands for submission in Rom. 12 and 13 presents a unique and unsettling dilemma for feminist and postcolonial exegetes and theorists. With a critical discussion of postcolonial hybridity theory and a turn towards – and back to – performativity this paper pushes the deviant metaphoricity in Rom. 12 from a shadowy existence to the centre stage and thereby redevelops Pauline concepts of perpetual bodily transformations as a challenge to reified body ideologies. We demonstrate how the marginalized, subjugated and colonized body experience of St. Paul becomes a resource for opening, materialized and pervasive stimuli that go beyond essentializing identitarian and excluding body configurations.
ISSN:1745-5189
Enthält:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735014542377