The deaths of Moses: The death penalty and the division of sovereignty
| Autor: | Christopher Bracken |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060303 religions & theology
White (horse) History media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Religious studies 050109 social psychology 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Indigenous Power (social and political) Gallows Sovereignty Political theology State (polity) Law 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sermon media_common |
| Zdroj: | Critical Research on Religion. 6:168-183 |
| ISSN: | 2050-3040 2050-3032 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2050303218774894 |
| Popis: | Derrida insists that any effort to think theological–political power “in its possibility” must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, “an Indian,” executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul’s execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom’s sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American author in English. Occom suggests there can be a theological–political power that signals itself not by decreeing the death penalty, but by opposing it. Hence sovereignty can be thought, with and against Derrida, as the theologico-political power to restore life. By opposing death to grace, moreover, Occom achieves a division of sovereignties, creating an opening for Indigenous nations within the scaffolding of the settler state. Working in collaboration, then, Occom and Paul produce a political theology. |
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