Witness to Dispossession The Vocation of a Postmodern Theologian

includes index and biblioraphy

PART ONE TEACHING
1 Foucault Teaching Theology
Power 4
Two of Foucault`s Case Studies 6
Teaching Theology 9
2 Multiple Theological Intelligences? An Inquiry
Introduction 13
Foucault and Music 14
Gardner as Resource 16
Musical Knowledge: A Tentative Proposal 21
Toward Plural Domains for Theology 26
PART TWO ENGAGING CULTURE
3 Is Your Spirituality Violent?
The Emergence of Violence as a Theme
in My Theological Life and Work 31
Branding as a Violent Power: Foucault 35
Contemporary Spirituality and Violent Power Imperial Psychology: Outsourcing and Torture Violence on the American Catholic Landscape Beyond Facelessness 49
4 Popular Culture Research and Theology
Popular Culture and Theological Production Spiritual Exercises Introduced 58
For Future Popular Culture Studies 62
PART THREE VOCATION
Reflections on Doing Practical Theology Today
Foucault as Philosopher of Practice 67
For Practical Theology 69
Teaching Practical Theology 73
The Ethics of Characterizing Popular Faith: Scholarship and Fandom
The Ethical Placement of the Scholar of Faith and Culture When Scholars Study Others` Faith: Soul Searching 79
On "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" in Religion Research Practical-Theological Interventions in Everyday Faith 88
The Relevance of Popular Culture Studies 90
Reflexivity as Ethical Task: Pop Culture Academics as
Fans-of the Academy? 91
The Difference a Fandom Consciousness Introduces 94
Theology`s Contribution to the Ethical Question 98
PART FOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE
I Was Imprisoned by Subjectivity and You Visited Me: Bonhoeffer and Foucault on the Way to a Postmodern Christian Self
Introduction 103
The Self in Foucault 105
The Self in Bonhoeffer`s Letters and Papers
An Apophatic Self 113
Foucault and Bonhoeffer: Summation 118
Implications: The Church and Power 121
The Struggle to Speak Truthfully
Introduction 123
Parrhesia in Ancient Thought 126