Title: Messianism against Christology : resistance movements, folk arts, and empire /
Authors: Perkinson, James W.,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Jesus Christ Person and offices.; Liberation theology.; Messianism.; Social justice Religious aspects Christianity; Anti-imperialist movements.; Religion; Bible Theology.; Religion and sociology; Imperialism; Political science; Ethics
Abstract: The book is a collection of essays exploring questions of freedom, justice, representation and identity as these arise in various historical moments both inside and outside of normative christological discourse about Jesus. The basic thesis is that messianic talk about Jesus in 1st century Palestinian through the imperial cult after Constantine.
Contents: Wildlands memorialization: Messianism mapped -- Ancestral invocation: Messianic traces from Abel to Isaiah -- Parabolic incantatin: movement Messianism and the Jubilee Jesus -- Metaphysical speculation: from Messianism to Christology -- Talismanic depiction: Messianic repair and folk arts (Ethiopia) -- Insurgent beat: Messianic decay and vision quest.