Preface: Vulnerability, righteous anger, and protest : forming public theologies of activism and resistance / Jennifer Baldwin -- Feel awful? : how to identify Trump's politics of abuse and subvert it / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- A womanist perspective on the election of Donald Trump : what pastors are called to do / Linda E. Thomas -- Warriors of compassion : coordinates on the compass of compassion-based activism / Frank Rogers -- Disrupting the public square : prophetic pastoral care and witness in times of trauma / Michelle A. Walsh -- Protest and resistance as the liturgy of the people / Jennifer Baldwin -- "Because I'm your mother, that's why" : scientific authority and the March for Science / Lisa Stenmark -- Black theology and hip-hop theology : theologies of activism and resistance / Willie Hudson -- "Saint Hillary," on unserious activism / Tony Hoshaw -- Love trumps hate : images of political love from pussyhat makers / Donna Bowman -- Achieving reproductive justice : theology and activism / Thia Cooper -- Why resistance fails / Olli-Pekka Vainio -- Homeland theology? : decolonizing Christianity and the task of public theology / Hille Haker -- Political theology in the Trump era : sacrificial frameworks in the US "neoliberal disimagination machine" / Kelly Denton-Borhaug -- A spirituality of activism : the Chicago Air and Water Show / Robert Bossie.
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Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal practices of activism and political resistance. This volume functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by increases in public activism and political resistance are opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological questions. -- Provided by publisher