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Book SynopsisThe author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians' in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories. Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity. On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment, belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and complexity.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Lived Experiences of Ethiopians: How Religion, Politics, and Theology Shape the Identity and History of Ethiopians as a Modern Nation
Chapter Two: Decolonizing Identity Politics
Chapter Three: From Holistic Theology to In-Between Theology
Chapter Four: In-Between Pastoral Care: Reframing Fragmented and Hegemonic Identities Through Subjective In-Betweeness
Chapter Five: In-Between Praxes: A Pragmatic Move to Co-Create In-Between Spaces
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
