Fordham University Press Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human

The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such descriptions. Contributions engage work from various fields, including ethnic studies, religious studies, theology, queer theory, philosophy, and literary studies. Review This interdisciplinary work moves from re-articulating the doctrine of man into a re-engagement with Christian theology in order to creatively and imaginatively present the reader with divinity in the flesh. Covering geopolitics and biopolitics and the matter of enfleshed resistance, Beyond the Doctrine of Man offers a challenge to theology from many sides, but a challenge it is meant to rise to, not buckle under. This is a remarkable book offering depth of academic analysis presented in an accessible manner. ---Lisa Isherwood, University of Winchester, About the Author Joseph Drexler-Dreis is Assistant Professor of Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana. Kristien Justaert was postdoctoral researcher of systematic theology at Leuven University, Belgium. She is currently the director of an environmental nonprofit organization. Rufus Burnett is a native of Gulfport, Mississippi, and an assistant professor of systematic theology at Fordham University. He previously taught within the Africana Department and Balfour-Hesburgh Scholars Program at the University of Notre Dame. His area of study focuses on the sonic, spatial, and embodied realities of the Christian imagination. His latest book, Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues (Fortress Academic, 2018), takes up these realities with regard to the American music genre known as the blues. Burnett’s constructive approach to systematic theology looks to expose the theological insights of people groups that respond to domination through the creative use of cultural production. M. Shawn Copeland is a professor of systematic theology at Boston College. An award-winning writer, Copeland is the author and/or editor of six books, including Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, 2009) and The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (Paulist Press, 2009), and more than 125 articles, book chapters, reviews, and blog entries on spirituality, theological anthropology, political theology, social suffering, gender, and race. Yomaira C. Figueroa is an assistant professor of Afro-diaspora studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Written through the lens of decoloniality, women of color feminisms, and feminist philosophy, her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), examines the textual, historical, and political relations between diasporic/exilic Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Equatoguinean poetics. Her published work can be found in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and SX Salon. A scholar and organizer, she is a founder of the MSU Womxn of Color Initiative and of the collaborative hurricane recovery project #ProyectoPalabrasPR.