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Thomas Mooren Freedom Through Subjugation The Good Shepherd According to Foucault, the West, the Chinese and the Church - Human Sciences in Dialogue with Missiology Reihe: Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft Bd. 30, 2009, 168 S., 24.90 EUR, gb., ISBN 978-3-643-90030-2 In the present study the author, director of "mission studies and interreligious dialogue", Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, proposes a dialogue between human sciences and missiology. Thanks to a path opened by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, Mooren analyses the "pastoralized" Western subject; the birth of the human sciences; how their constitution allows for a new vision of institutions like the Propaganda Fidei as well as of the Catholic China mission of the XVII/XVIII centuries. Throughout all this Mooren tackles that one question: why become a Christian at all? |
