What Is Decolonial Love?

• Main Author: Drexler-Dreis, Joseph
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Fordham University Press 2018
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823281886.003.0001

The introduction establishes the decolonial perspective that prompts the questions to which the book responds. In light of the modern/colonial context of the North Atlantic world, the introduction raises two basic questions. First, can theology, as a mode of critical reflection that employs core concepts and images within lineages grounded in the European experience, contribute to the task of decolonization? Second, if a positive response to this question were offered, what would the content of that response look like? The introduction then proceeds to map out how the core image of decolonial love is developed through the book as a basis for responding to these questions.