ePub Colonial Inventions: Landscape; Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad by Amar Wahab in History

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The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylor's award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of "Lockdown America" and a visionary statement of hope. It is also a call for action to Jesus followers to resist US imperial projects and power. Outlining a "theatrics of state terror;" Taylor identifies and analyzes its instruments—mass incarceration; militarized police tactics; surveillance; torture; immigrant repression; and capital punishment—through which a racist and corporatized Lockdown America enforces in the US a global neoliberal economic and political imperialism. Against this; The Executed God proposes a "counter-theatrics to state terror;" a declamation of the way of the cross for Jesus followers that unmasks the powers of US state domination and enacts an adversarial politics of resistance; artful dramatic actions; and the building of peoples' movements. These are all intrinsic to a Christian politics of remembrance of the Jesus executed by empire. Heralded in its first edition; this new edition is thoroughly revised; updated; and expanded; offering a demanding rethinking and recreating of what being a Christian is and of how Christianity should dream; hope; mobilize; and act to bring about what Taylor terms "a liberating material spirituality" to unseat the state that kills.