Universal Burdens:

Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization and Taqwacore

Anthony T. Fiscella

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There are Zen students who are in chains when they go to a teacher, and the teacher adds another chain. The students are delighted, unable to discern one thing from another. This is called a guest looking at a guest. -Linji What do Zen master Linji, Muslim scholar ‘Abbâd ibn Sulaymân, and Comanche thinker Parra-Wa-Samen have in common? Among many other things, they share the fact that they are all excluded from the reigning conversations within academia about what “freedom” is, how it can be understood, and how it ought to be applied in the world. They share that place of exclusion with the vast majority of the world. The sword of colonialism continues to strike today from the oil fields of the Middle East to the literature on our shelves. This dissertation aims to begin a conversation about that exclusion and how we might begin to undo some of the massive violence that much of the world is subject to every day.

Additional information

Weight 1035 g
Dimensions 28 × 169 × 239 mm
Language

English

Number of pages

464

Publication year

2015

Format

Paperback

ISBN

978-91-87833-55-7

ISSN

1103-4882