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Tables of Contents for The Executed God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Introduction: The Executed God
1
1
The Crucified God
1
2
From Crucified to Executed
3
1
Jesus of Nazareth and the Executed God
4
3
The Executed God and the Death of Our Gods
7
8
Arguing for a Theatrics of Counterterror: Way of the Cross, Way of the Book
15
3
Part One: The Theatrics of Terror
Lockdown America: A Theater of Terror
18
30
Out of the Mouths of Babes and...
18
1
Gulag America
19
2
Theatrics of Terror: Six Dimensions
21
20
Conclusion: Lockdown America as Threat to All
41
7
Theatrics and Sacrifice in the U.S.-Led Imperium
48
22
Gulag America's Calculated Effect
49
1
Production, Punishment, and the Sacrificial Myth
50
4
A Strengthened Elite Class in America: An Untold Story
54
2
The Punishment System and Controlling Surplus Populations
56
3
How Terrorizing Punishment Serves the Economically Powerful
59
3
From Gulag America to Pax Americana
62
3
Conclusion: Surplus and Sacrifice in the U.S.-Led Imperium
65
5
Part Two: A Theatrics of Counterterror
Way of the Cross as Adversarial Politics
70
29
The Galilean Jesus
71
5
Jesus and the Soldiers of Empire
76
2
How Adversarial Was Jesus' Politics?
78
1
The Anti-Imperial Paul: Imprisoned and Executed by Rome
79
11
Mark's Gospel: A Drama of Anti-Imperial Resistance
90
7
Conclusion: Being Adversarial: Christians at the Crossroads
97
2
Stealing the Show: Way of the Cross as Dramatic Action
99
28
How the Executed Jesus Stole the Show
101
4
Sacrificing the Poor: Theatrical Spectacles of Fear and Fascination
105
4
Dramatic Action: Bodies on the Line, Worlds Created
109
10
Stealing the Show in Lockdown America: A Triumph of God
119
5
Wider Power and Lockdown America
124
3
Way of the Cross as Building Peoples' Movements
127
28
Jesus and Peoples' Movements
128
2
The Jesus Movements: Those Impious Galileans
130
4
Impious Galileans Today?
134
3
Dismantling the Police Function As We Know It
137
5
No More Prisons!
142
6
The Death of the Death Penalty
148
6
Conclusion: People on the Move with an Executed God
154
1
Epilogue: Christian Living: Toward a Fullness of Rebellion
155
9
Rebellion and Revelation
156
1
Rebellion Today and the Rising of the Executed God
157
7
Notes
164
28
For Further Reading: A Select Bibliography
192
6
Acknowledgments
198
4
Index
202