TY  - BOOK
AU  - Molla,Rode
TI  - A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia's Era of Identity Politics: reframing hegemonic and fragmented identities through subjective in-betweenness 
T2  - Emerging perspectives in pastoral theology and care
SN  - 9781666922899
AV  - BV4011.3 
U1  - ETH 253.0963 Rod 2023 23/eng/20221017
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
KW  - Pastoral theology
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Political theology
KW  - Identity politics
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Postcolonialism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians' in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories. Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity. On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment, belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and complexity"--
ER  -