Charlie Samuel Christie Pemberton
Liberation Theology and Zombies: Paralysis and Praxis
Pemberton, Charlie Samuel Christie
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Abstract
In Fredric Jameson's formulation it may now be “easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” What Jameson suggests is that our current preoccupation with the drama of the apocalyptic belies a deeper paralysis of the imagination, and with this the concomitant loss of actions conducive to a new politics. Jameson's comments here foreground a contradiction in our experience of late capitalism, representations of dramatic rupture which obscure fundamental political stasis. This paper takes Jameson's reflections and the contradiction of action which is also non-action as the point of departure to query the current state of Liberation Theology, particularly the work of Ivan Petrella, to defend the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez, and ask how our contemporary predicament might be illuminated by Danny Boyle's zombie film, 28 Days Later.
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Pemberton, C. S. C. (2017). Liberation Theology and Zombies: Paralysis and Praxis. Political Theology, 18(8), 730-749. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2017.1349985
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 18, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 12, 2017 |
Publication Date | Nov 17, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jul 11, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 12, 2019 |
Journal | Political Theology |
Print ISSN | 1462-317X |
Electronic ISSN | 1743-1719 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 8 |
Pages | 730-749 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2017.1349985 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Political theology on 12 Jul 2017 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1462317X.2017.1349985
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