Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human

Contributor(s): Drexler-Dreis, Joseph (Editor), Justaert, Kristien (Editor), Burnett, Rufus (Contribution by), Copeland, M Shawn (Contribution by), Drexler-Dreis, Joseph (Contribution by), Figueroa, Yomaira C (Contribution by), Haynes, Patrice (Contribution by), Justaert, Kristien (Contribution by), Méndez, Xhercis (Contribution by), Prevot, Andrew (Contribution by), Rivera, Mayra (Contribution by), Tonstad, Linn Marie (Contribution by), Weheliye, Alexander (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9780823285860

Publisher: Fordham University Press

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Pub Date: December 3, 2019

Dewey: 128

LCCN: 2019015944

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.01 lbs) 304 pages

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Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter's questioning of modern/colonial descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such descriptions.

Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland, Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Méndez, Andrew Prevot, Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye

Brief description: M. Shawn Copeland is a professor of systematic theology at Boston College. An award-winning writer, Copeland is the author and/or editor of six books, including Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, 2009) and The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (Paulist Press, 2009), and more than 125 articles, book chapters, reviews, and blog entries on spirituality, theological anthropology, political theology, social suffering, gender, and race.

Review Quotes: The contributions are deeply insightful, diverse, and serve as a fitting prolegomenon for further examination.-- "Religious Studies Review"