Post-Traumatic Public Theology

1. Introduction
Shelly Rambo

2. War Bodies: Remembering Bodies in a Time of War
Willie James Jennings

3. Trauma, Reality, and Eucharist
Bryan Stone

4. Running the Gauntlet of Humiliation: Disablement in/as Trauma
Sharon V. Betcher

5. The Trauma of Racism and the Distorted White Imagination
Dan Hauge

6. “Serving the Spirit of Goodness”: Spiritual and Theological Responses to Affliction in the Writings of St. John of the Cross and Louise Erdrich
Wendy Farley

7. Elegy for a Lost World
Mark Wallace

8. The Virtual Body of Christ and the Embrace of those Traumatized by Cancer
Deanna A. Thompson

9. Examining Restorative Justice: Theology, Traumatic Narratives, and Affective Responsibility
Stephanie N. Arel

10. 9/11 Changed Things: The (Post-Traumatic) Religious Studies Classroom
Katherine Janiec Jones

11. “La Mano Zurda with a Heart in Its Palm”: Mystical Activism as a Response to the Trauma of Immigration Detention
Susanna Snyder

12. Taking Matter Seriously: Material Theopoetics in the Aftermath of Communal Violence
Michelle A. Walsh

13. Traumas of Belonging: Imagined Communities of Nation, Religion, and Gender in Modernity
Susan Abraham

Keywords: Religious Studies, Christian Theology, Religion and Health