Redeeming the Broken Body: Church and State after Disaster

by Gabriel A. Santos

Publisher:

Cascade Books

, 2009

Overview

This book examines how repertoires of speech and action that are often considered to be mutually exclusive—those of church and state—clash or unite during the postdisaster period as local communities and cities struggle to establish a stable collective identity. Based on an analysis of 40 in-depth interviews with disaster-response participants and over 325 print-media sources, this study explores, first, the extent to which ministers and citizens challenge statist narratives in order to publicly relay theological views; second, the cultural processes by which local places are nationalized and theologized; and third, the ecclesiological convictions necessary to peaceably advance the work of Christ’s body after disasters.

Product Details

• Title: Redeeming the Broken Body: Church and State after Disaster
• Author: Gabriel A. Santos
• Series: Theopolitical Visions
• Volume: 2
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Church and state; Psychic trauma › Social aspects; Psychic trauma › Religious aspects--Christianity; Disasters › Religious aspects--Christianity; Terrorism › Religious aspects--Christianity; Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• ISBNs: 9781556357251, 9781498211222, 9781621890447, 1556357257, 1498211224, 1621890449
• Resource ID: LLS:THEOPOLREDEEMING
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-13T18:04:24Z

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