Can “Dangerous Memories” be Communicated? Extending Insights from the Intercultural Theology of Robert J. Schreiter into Dialogue with Subculture and Racialization
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https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.35584Keywords:
Schreiter, Robert J., intercultural theology, racial justice, racial suffering, intercultural hermeneutics, semioticsAbstract
Robert J. Schreiter's groundbreaking work on the connection between theological discourse and intercultural hermeneutics is a sound foundation for a theological project that engages culture and its connection to globalization and racialization within the United States. This essay extends insights from Schreiter's work to bear upon the theological problem within the US context of communicating "dangerous memories" of racialized suffering by bringing Schreiter's insights regarding semiotics and intercultural hermeneutics into engagement with the concepts of subculture and racialization. I conclude that this approach can assist theological communication of "dangerous memories" of racialized suffering through highlighting the aberrant theological anthropology conferred through racialization-and its dehumanizing hierarchy of race that offers and prohibits access to the benefits of globalized society depending upon one's entrance into "whiteness"-and semiotically focusing upon culture and subculture as the locations through which communication is possible. Such an approach may lead to a broader, re-humanizing reinterpretation of the signs, codes, and messages that are intertwined with phenotype.
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Garcia-Rivera, A. 1995. St. Martin de Porres: The “Little Stories” and the Semiotics of Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
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Hopkins, Dwight. 2005. Being Human: Religion, Race, and Culture. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Jennings, Willie James. 2010. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Schreiter, Robert J. 1985. Constructing Local Theologies. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
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Thurman, Howard. 1976. Jesus and the Disinherited. Boston: Beacon.
Tracy, David. 1987. Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Twiss, Richard. 2015. Rescuing the Gospels from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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2019-04-05
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Considine, K. P. (2019). Can “Dangerous Memories” be Communicated? Extending Insights from the Intercultural Theology of Robert J. Schreiter into Dialogue with Subculture and Racialization. Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 3(1-2), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.35584
