Unsettling Theologies: Memory, Identity, and Place

✍ Scribed by Brian Fiu Kolia; Michael Mawson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Series: Postcolonialism and Religions
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds of theological perspectives and approaches are needed in the wake of colonisation and its impact? Unsettling Theologies includes responses to these questions from Aboriginal, Māori, Pasifika and White scholars.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Part I: Unsettling Whiteness
Chapter 2: Jesus Christ, Once Was a Savage! Selective Memory, Staged Identity, and Stolen Spaces
Me Hoki Whakamuri, Kia Anga Whakamua
Tukua Mai he Kapunga Oneone Ki Ahau Hei Tangi māku
Hokia Ki ō Maunga Kia Purea Ai Koe e ngā Hau a Tāwhirimātea
References
Chapter 3: ‘The Poor Bugger Has Suffered Enough’: Vernon Ah Kee, Warwick Thornton, and the Unmaking of a White Jesus
Vernon Ah Kee: Aboriginality, Christ and Unwritten Humanity
Warwick Thornton: Aboriginality, Christ, and Country
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation
Indigenous Christologies and a Turn to Context
Lee Miena Skye’s Womanist Christology
Wayne Te Kaawa’s Māori Christology
White Christologies and a Turn to the Cross
White and Christian Strategies for Avoiding Realities of Colonisation
The Interruption of a Theologia Crucis
Interrupting White Theology and Towards Relationality
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Unsettling Theologies Means Unsettling Theological Institutions!
Acknowledging Where We Are
Beginning the Journey
Decolonization for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christians
Decolonization for Indigenous Peoples from Elsewhere
Decolonization for Non-indigenous Peoples
A Missed Opportunity
The Big Fella Without the Crap
Troublemakers and Changing Spaces
Opportunities for Theological Institutions
References
Part II: Dismantling Colonial Systems
Chapter 6: Uncovering the Mat: Restorative Justice for the Dawn Raids?
Introduction
Locating My Self
The Samoan Ritual of Ifoga
Attendees/Attendance
Timing
Venue
Fa’amagalo
Un-covering the Ardern Ifoga
Un-covering the Timing
Un-covering the Attendees/Attendance
Un-covering the Venue
Un-covering Fa’amagalo
Uncovering the Mat: Restorative or Performative Justice?
Conclusion: Theological Implications
References
Chapter 7: ‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth
Setting the Context
An Ecclesiology of the Domestic Church
The Impact of Colonization in Faith and Culture
Performing a ‘Holy’ Jesus
Conclusion: New Horizons
References
Chapter 8: Unsettling Providential Partnership: A Critical Examination of Robert Maunsell and George Grey’s Partnership in Māori Education
Maunsell and Grey
Maunsell and Grey: Grey’s First Governorship
Industrial Boarding Schools
Hints on Schools Amongst the Aborigines
From Maraetai to Kohanga
Maunsell and Grey: Grey’s Second Governorship
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Spiritualities of Belonging and Intercultural Politics in Australia
Blackstone’s Deconstructive Theology
Spiritualities of Belonging
In Lieu of a Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: To Conquer and Subdue: An Ecological Reading of Wilderness in Jeremiah 17:5–8 and Beyond
Jeremiah 17:5–8: An Eco-Rhetorical Reading
From Text to Context: Jer 17:5–8 and Its Colonial Reverberations
From Context to Text: A Reclamation
References
Part III: Un-silencing Alter-Native Theologies
Chapter 11: Taught to Fish but Still Starving: Unsettling Theological Hermeneutics in Oceania
Settled Hermeneutics: ‘Fish come from the Sea’
De-settling Hermeneutics: Fish Are Elusive
Unsettling Hermeneutics: Fishing as Communal
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 12: Archives: From Places of Silence and Silencing to Places of Regeneration
Introduction
Archival Silences
The Research Project
Results of the Research
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Beyond the Tautologa: Tu(akoi) from a Geopolitical Lens
Who Is your Neighbour?
The Geopolitics of Climate Change
References
Chapter 14: Unsettling Economies: A Moana Account(ing)
Māfana
Economies
Won-Tok
Oceania
reStorying
Moana
Economy
Food
References
Index