Memory, Grief, and Agency

Sunder John Boopalan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. His recently published essays include “Afterword: Justice Amidst Violence: Missed and Available Opportunities” in Mirage: A Sri Lankan Dalit Novel (2016) and “Doing Constructive Theology with B. R. Ambedkar: Where Theology and Ethics Kiss” in Bangalore Theological Forum (2016).

• 1: Introduction: Political and Theological Framework.- 2: Wrongs and Formations of Violent Identities: Theorizing Caste and Race.- 3: Ethics of Corporeal Obligation: Grammar of the Body and Language of Wrongs.- 4: Theological Unease with Remembering Wrongs: Miroslav Volf and Oliver O’Donovan.- 5: Agential Roles of Memory and Grief: Internal and External Works (or Rites).- 6: Wrongs and Rites: Rituals of Humiliation and Rites of Moral Responsibility.