Overview

This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender- based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw on sources ranging from Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Étienne Balibar to Rowan Williams and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Entitlement is theorized and interpreted as a gender pattern, predisposing subjects towards controlling behaviour and/or violent actions. Steven Ogden develops a theology of transformation, stressing immanence. He examines entitled subjects, predisposed to violence, where transformation requires a limit-experience that wrenches the subject from itself. The book then reflects on today’s pervasive strongman politics, where political rationalities foster proprietorial thinking and entitlement gender patterns, and how theology is called to develop counter-discourses and counter-practices.

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Reviews

“Steven G. Ogden’s Violence, Entitlement, and Politics aims to ‘develop a theology on the transformation of violent subjects’ (15). And he succeeds admirably in developing such a theology at both individual and cultural levels of analysis. […] This book is likely to be of interest to scholars working in gender and masculinities, practical and pastoral theology, and social ethics. His work is highly relevant to anyone engaged in public theology and political advocacy at the sociocultural level as well as those in caring professions. His engagement with Foucault is relevant, clear, and likely to be accessible to those at graduate and doctoral levels. […] Ogden offers a work that will likely prove generative as theologians build on his contribution.” - Matthew S. Beal in Reading Religion

Author Information

Steven G. Ogden is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is interested in politics and religion, as well as issues around gender, power, and violence. Previous publications include The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom (2017).

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