In Search of Human Dignity

Produktdetails

Verlag

Waxmann Verlag GmbH

Erschienen

2015

Sprache

English

Seiten

267

Infos

267 Seiten

ISBN

978-3-8309-8241-8

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Book Cover;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;6
3.1;I. In search of human dignity: Essays in theology;8
3.2;II. In search of human dignity: Essays in ethics;10
3.3;III. In search of human dignity: Essays in education;12
3.4;Acknowledgements;13
4;Essays in theology;15
4.1;1. "i found god in myself & i loved her, i loved her fiercely";16
4.1.1;The quote;16
4.1.2;Mary Grey;17
4.1.3;Michelle Cliff;17
4.1.4;Most surprising: demarcation, her and fiercely;18
4.1.5;Alice Walker: The Color Purple;19
4.1.6;Katie Cannon - and "the color purple";21
4.1.7;A few reflections;23
4.1.8;Until last week;23
4.1.9;Bibliography;24
4.2;2. "Do not love anybody more than you love yourself." On ethics, oppression, and resistance;25
4.2.1;"Only when we have faces";25
4.2.2;Under oppression;27
4.2.3;To embrace one's own value - and that of others;32
4.2.4;Finally;34
4.2.5;Bibliography;34
4.3;3. Women, agency and motherhood;35
4.3.1;Mary of the Magnificat - a Sri Lankan perspective;36
4.3.2;Faith from within life itself - A South African perspective;39
4.3.3;Giving meaning to birthing and motherhood - a Swedish perspective;42
4.3.4;Concluding discussion;45
4.3.5;Bibliography;47
4.4;4. Integrity and justice at stake;48
4.4.1;Confessing and embodying unity - A feminist theological perspective;48
4.4.2;At risk: The integrity of the Christian faith;49
4.4.3;A question;49
4.4.4;Situations of women worldwide;51
4.4.5;Women and the Church;54
4.4.6;The Belhar confession and the challenge today - to confess and embody unity;55
4.4.7;The comment and a response;56
4.4.8;To change;57
4.4.9;Whose integrity at stake?;58
4.5;5. When will white, European men stop being normal?;59
4.5.1;On feminism and theology, via oppression and experience, to situated knowledges and a discussion on who is a subject;59
4.5.1.1;Introduction;59
4.5.1.2;On oppression;59
4.5.1.3;On experience;60
4.5.1.4;On the human being;61
4.5.2;From patriarchy to justice in spite of differences?;62
4.5.2.1;Theories of patriarchy;62
4.5.2.2;Young's five faces of oppression;63
4.5.3;Situated knowledges and the strategy of the impossible conversation;65
4.5.3.1;Who can be "empirical referents" for knowledge?;65
4.5.3.2;"Situated knowledges";65
4.5.3.3;Epistemological privilege?;67
4.5.3.4;Is responsible knowing possible?;68
4.5.4;New subjects - new human beings?;69
4.5.4.1;Bodily integrity and moral self-confidence;69
4.5.4.2;Critique of Descartes - and a relational self;70
4.5.5;Theological relevance;71
4.5.5.1;Women - theological subjects;71
4.5.5.2;White European men - different in their own eyes?;71
4.5.5.3;Is feminist theology partial?;72
4.5.5.4;Knowledge and differences, group egoism, and the impossible conversation;73
4.5.6;At last;73
5;Essays in ethics;74
5.1;6. "Only when we have faces" - ethics in a post-colonial epoch;75
5.1.1;Three cultural contexts - and a conversation on four concepts;76
5.1.2;Methodological concerns;77
5.1.2.1;Paradigm conflicts and "rhetorical space";77
5.1.2.2;Situated knowledges;78
5.1.2.3;Communicative ethics;78
5.1.2.4;Feminist ethics;79
5.1.2.5;Theological ethics/Ethics;80
5.1.3;Results;82
5.1.3.1;In a proper sense...;82
5.1.3.2;...and in this article...;82
5.1.3.3;Mary C. Grey - relationships as the locus of ethics;83
5.1.3.4;Chung Hyun Kyung - epistemology from a broken body;85
5.1.3.5;Katie G. Cannon an African-American theologian;90
5.1.3.6;Concluding reflections;92
5.1.3.6.1;Oppression - differences and similarities;92
5.1.3.6.2;Values: context and universality;94
5.1.3.6.3;Different presuppositions and equal rights - justice;94
5.1.3.6.4;Finally;95
5.1.3.7;Bibliography;96
5.2;7. Women's human rights in Sweden - a feminist ethical perspective;98
5.2.1;One question - and another;98
5.2.2;I. Two stories from literature;100
5.2.2.1;Mother Augusta and her relatives;100
5.2.2.2;Catrine - a young Swedish woman;101
5.2.2.3;Women and men in Sweden - facts and figures;102
5.2.3;II. Haral

Kurztext / Annotation

Our human dignity can be taken from us in unjust relationships, which makes resistance and a search for dignity necessary. This search can take place in different ways - in this book through academic studies in theology, ethics and education. Human dignity relates to human rights, which are also explored here; moreover, perspectives from gender and postcolonial theory inform the studies. The reflection on human dignity ends in a discussion of education, making the book a resource in addressing contemporary value issues in education.

This collection of lectures, articles and papers covers a certain time period. In the texts particular themes recur, which contributes to continuity and coherence. The focus of more recently written chapters takes the discussion in new directions.

Karin Sporre, with a PhD in Ethics from Lund University, Sweden, is Professor in Education focusing on values, gender and diversity at Umeå University, Sweden. Since 2001 she has been actively engaged in co-operation with South African colleagues. This has inspired comparison between South Africa and Sweden, exemplified in some of the chapters in her book "In Search of Human Dignity".

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