1st Edition

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness

By Jane Barter Copyright 2025
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide. It offers a diachronic study of the relationship between theological forms of witnessing within Jewish and Christian traditions and public forms of witnessing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the ways in which various witnesses to political atrocity... Read more

Introduction  1. Testimony as Lament   2. L’homme/La femme Mémoire: The Witness as Bearer of History  3. L’Homme/La Femme Blessé(e): The Wounded Subject  4. L’Homme/La Femme Réconcilié(e): The Reconciled Subject  5. The Witness as Remnant  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Jane Barter is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.