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Executed God - 2nd Edition by Mark Lewis Taylor (Paperback)

Executed God - 2nd Edition by  Mark Lewis Taylor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Executed God is a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope. Outlining a theatrics of state terror, Taylor documents the instrumentsmass incarceration, militarized police tactics, surveillance, torture, immigrant suppression, and capital punishmentthrough which Lockdown America enforces global neoliberal economic and political imperialism. Against this, Taylor proposes a counter-theatricsthe way of the crossthat unmasks the powers of state control and enacts an adversarial politics of resistance and dramatic actiona Christian politics of remembering the Jesus executed by empire.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning <b>The Executed God</b> 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 instrumentsmass incarceration, militarized police tactics, surveillance, torture, immigrant repression, and capital punishmentthrough which a racist and corporatized Lockdown America enforces in the United States a global neoliberal economic and political imperialism.</p><p>Against this, <b>The Executed God</b> 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.</p><p>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. </p>

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