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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City
ISBN: 9780823253937
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Globalization -- Religious aspects; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects;

Spirit and Cosmopolis puts theology on location on the streets of our planet's cities and articulates philosophical reflection worked through religious values for living amidst the affective dynamics of the street. Precarity ensconced in the postcolonial city is critically exposed. "Crip/tography" names a proposed urban choreography, a calculus based on Spirit's generosity, that redresses fear and otherwise advances neighbor love.

Sharon Betcher is an independent scholar, writer, crip philosopher, and farmer living on Whidbey Island, Washington. She is the author of two academic texts, Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Fortress, 2007) and Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for Global Cities (Fordham University Press, 2014) as well as chapters within many anthologies. Her theo- philosophical work engages the critical lenses of ecological, postcolonial, gender, and disability studies theory.