Vol XVI. No. 16
Archive - Dec 2009 - Oct 2019 http://colleagueslist.blogspot/.ca http://colleagueslistii.blogspot.com
GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
REFORMATION/ALL SAINTS EDITION
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
My Special Item this week centers on a book published late last year by friend and colleague Clara Joseph. Details of her bio appear below. Usually I work from a hardcopy edition of the books I promote, but in this case the version is electronic. Please treat the material with discretion.
Clara is a deeply committed Roman Catholic as well as a specialist in English literature and Indian religious history.
I am grateful to have friends and colleagues over the years who are willing to share their work with me and thus with you. Thanks, Clara, for providing this product of your learning with us.
The rest of Colleagues List this week offers timely material for you, and I hope you will find it useful.
Wayne
PLEASE NOTE- If a link, below seems to be dead, cut and paste it into the address bar at the top of your web page and it should work.
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SPECIAL ITEM
CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA The Anti-Colonial Turn, by Clara Joseph
Routledge, New York, Oct. 2019 Hardcopy and E-Book Editions ISBN #978-0-8153-5774-2 or #978--1-351-12386-0
Publisher's Promo:
Christianity in India... by studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of precolonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and postcolonial missionaries. Christians in the East have had a difficult time getting heard—let alone understood as anti-colonial. This is a problem, especially in studies on India, where the focus has typically been on North India and British colonialism and its impact in the era of globalization.
This book analyzes texts and contexts to show how communities of Indian Christians predetermined Western expansionist goals and later defined the Western colonial and Indian national imaginary. Combining historical research and literary analysis, the author prompts a re-evaluation of how Indian Christians reacted to colonialism in India and its potential to influence ongoing events of religious intolerance. Through a rethinking of a postcolonial theoretical framework, this book argues that Thomas Christians attempted an anti-colonial turn in the face of ecclesiastical and civic occupation that was colonial at its core.
A novel intervention, this book takes up South India and the impact of Portuguese colonialism in both the early modern and contemporary period. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religious Studies, Christianity, and South Asia. Clara A. B. Joseph is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, studies in Christianity, literary theory, and literature and ethics.
My Thoughts:
I am only beginning to realize the complexities of what are meant by the terms colonialism, post-colonialism and de-colonialism. It will take some time for those who are committed to global Christianity to come to a fuller understanding of these terms and their meanings today.
Earlier this month I published a column in the Anglican Journal entitled: "Post-Colonialism Begins With Me" which continues to reflect Western guilt-feelings over Euro and American colonialism - political, militaristic, economic and religious.
Please click https://tinyurl.com/y3blarjd to read this column.
I begin reading Clara Joseph's book Christianity in India and realize the theme of colonialism and its variants is not a simple black and white matter. India itself is divided in its understand of colonialism.
Simply put, there was anti-colonialism in India (and in this case in Kerala State, South India) long before we in the West became aware of great injustices. Parts of India were strongly anti-colonial before we in the West knew of it. Indians themselves long struggled with its meaning.
I want to thank Clara Joseph, friend and colleague, a native of Kerala State, but a long-time resident academic at my university in Calgary, for bringing an important new dimension to the discussion. She does this out of a deep desire to coentinue exchange and to clarify issues.
For permission to use any of this book's material, contact Dr. Clara Joseph at: <cjoseph@ucalgary.ca>
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COLLEGUE CONRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor, Okanagan,BC
Personal Web Log October 29th, 2020
"A Saint for Every Purpose" https://tinyurl.com/yym2jj36
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Mark WhittalSermons and Blog
October 23rd, 2020
"Learning to Love"
https://tinyurl.com/y5zzazr8
Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
October 26th, 2020
"What Kind of House Can You Build for Me?"
https://tinyurl.com/y2vfsmpd
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NET NOTES - December 1st, 2020
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT
HAS GUIDED MY POLITICS
The Biblical Stance of Joe Biden
Christian Post
October 29th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yxceowyl
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KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKS
OF HER FAITH and of
How it Might Influence the What House
Religion News Service,
October 29th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y532pmhu
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THE ALPHA MALE STYLE
IN AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM
An In-House Assessment
Christianity Today,
October 27th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y3n2tswj
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AMERICAN EVANGELICLS MADE
A BAD BARGAIN WITH TRUMP
(Summary of Atlantic Monthly Article)
Hot Air
October 19th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y4dqhtfx
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UCC MAKES HISTORICS DELAATION
TO BECOME AN ANTI-RACIST CHURCH
United Church of Canada Website,
October 27th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y6guv687
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TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY
Most Steer Clear of Pilitics
Religion News Service,
October 29th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y4wgrhhn
WHY TRADITIONAL WORSHIP IS
MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN WE THINK
Current Situation Provides New Opportunities
Broadview,
October 20th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y6kxmofh
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FRANSIS' STANCE ON CIVIL UNIONS
SUPPORTS JUSTICE AND IS NOTHING NEW
Response by Some is Mixed, Others Celebrate
Religion News Service,
October 20th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y2fnbdfp
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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN LEADERS
RELEASE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VIDEO
ELCA nd ELCIC Bishops Express Hope
World Council of Churches,
October 28th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yxofy8ny
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ASIAN ORDINATION NUMBERS INCREASE
COUNTERING GLOBAL VOCATION TRENDS
These Priests Help Minister to Whole Church
UCA News,
October 26th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/yxv62ksh
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Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
If we in fact owe one another love, then we owe
one another justice, which includes repairing the
damages done, individually and collectively,
in community.
- Valerie Bridgeman
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Those who want to live according to biblical truth
have a political responsibility to try to bring about
the kingdom of God as much as possible and as
soon as possible.
- Virginia Mollenkott
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It's not enough to simply complain about injustice;
the only way to prevent future injustice is to create
the society we would like to see, one where we are
all equal under the law.
- Rev. Al Sharpton
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Gratitude is not a simple emotion or an obvious
attitude. It is a difficult discipline to constantly
reclaim my whole past as the concrete way in
which God has led me to this moment and is
sending me into the future. It is hard precisely
because it challenges me to face the painful
moments – experiences of rejection and
abandonment, feelings of loss and failure –
and gradually to discover in them the pruning
hands of God purifying my heart for deeper
love, stronger hope, and broader faith.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Mitákuye Oyásiŋ is the Lakota way of saying
“we are all related.” It is a phrase that points to
the interdependence of all things. The Covid-19
pandemic and the ecological threats of our time,
are excellent examples of this truth. It is an idea
that is both practical and philosophical.
On the practical level, it applies to that sense
of communal care that defines the relationship
between neighbors. On a philosophical level,
it means that the world and all that is in it comes
from the same divine source, that each piece of
creation affects, depends upon, and participates
in the life of the others.
- Nathan Beacom
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ACTS MINISTRY STUDIES BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER!!
This Autumn, Our Groups Meet on Zoom
Monday Night Study 7:00PM to 8:30PM (90 minutes)
Online classes run from September 14th to November 23rd.
Our Book - "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr
You buy it from Amazon.ca or Indigo
It will be your only cost for the series.
Thursday Morning Bible Study 10:00AM to 11:00AM (60 min.)
We met September 17th to make our fall study Bible selection
Classes run until the end of November
"Women of the Bible (Hebrew and Christian)"
Invite new friends to join us via Zoom.
If you have questions, contact Wayne at waholst@telus.net
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