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THEOLOGY, DECONSTRUCTION, AND RITUAL PROCESS
Author(s) -
Winquist Charles E.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1983.tb00516.x
Subject(s) - deconstruction (building) , liminality , secularization , meaning (existential) , sociology , reflexivity , theology , epistemology , philosophy , aesthetics , anthropology , ecology , biology
. Victor Turner's comparative symbology provides a description of liminality, marginality, and liminoid genres that can be usefully applied to positioning theology in a theory of practice, determining its social location, and assessing its future meaning. This paper argues not only that theological marginality is a result of the secularization of culture but also that the breach with theology's pubiics reflects a more significant internal breach that is essential to theology as a liminoid form of public reflexivity. The paper draws from deconstructionist philosophy and defines the interpretive task of theology as a deconstructionist hermeneutic.