Life in the Struggle: Liturgical Innovation in the Face of the Cultural Devastation of Disaster Capitalism
This article argues that the process of capital in its current destructive form has engendered a crisis of cultural devastation within the church’s liturgy and ethic. To do so, it looks first at the destructiveness of capital using post-Katrina New Orleans as an example, drawing in David Simon’s HBO...
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2020-06-01
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| description | This article argues that the process of capital in its current destructive form has engendered a crisis of cultural devastation within the church’s liturgy and ethic. To do so, it looks first at the destructiveness of capital using post-Katrina New Orleans as an example, drawing in David Simon’s HBO series _Treme_ to illustrate this point. From this point of cultural devastation, I then draw off Jonathan Lear’s analysis of the Crow in _Radical Hope_ to theorize the problems and possibilities of moving forward. Finally, it attempts to triangulate a way of recovering and reconstituting Christian ethics through the practice of irony by looking to Kierkegaard’s notion of the church militant and Romand Coles’ description of the work of community-based action research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61a43c50db79483aa6b169c9214cc2c42023-10-20T17:33:57ZengThe Journal of Moral Theology, Inc.Journal of Moral Theology2166-28512166-21182020-06-0192Life in the Struggle: Liturgical Innovation in the Face of the Cultural Devastation of Disaster CapitalismDaniel P. RhodesThis article argues that the process of capital in its current destructive form has engendered a crisis of cultural devastation within the church’s liturgy and ethic. To do so, it looks first at the destructiveness of capital using post-Katrina New Orleans as an example, drawing in David Simon’s HBO series _Treme_ to illustrate this point. From this point of cultural devastation, I then draw off Jonathan Lear’s analysis of the Crow in _Radical Hope_ to theorize the problems and possibilities of moving forward. Finally, it attempts to triangulate a way of recovering and reconstituting Christian ethics through the practice of irony by looking to Kierkegaard’s notion of the church militant and Romand Coles’ description of the work of community-based action research.https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/13338-life-in-the-struggle-liturgical-innovation-in-the-face-of-the-cultural-devastation-of-disaster-capitalism |
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