num_pages: 176
description: Being human is neither abstract nor hypothetical. It is concrete visceral and embodied in the everyday experience and relationships that determine who we are. In that case argues distinguished theologian Shawn Copeland we have much to learn from the embodied experience of black women who for centuries have borne in their bodies the identities and pathologies of those in power.With rare insight and conviction Copeland demonstrates how black women's experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological theorems and pious platitudes and reveal them as a kind of mental colonization that still operates powerfully in our economic and political configurations today. Further Copeland argues race and embodiment and relations of power not only reframe theological anthropology but also our notions of discipleship church and Christ as well. In fact she argues our postmodern situation -- marked decidedly by the realities of race conflict the remains of colonizing myths and the health of bodies - affords an opportunity to be human (and to be the body of Christ) with new clarity and effect.
language: English
title: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
publisher: Fortress Press