Sister Death

Political Theologies for Living and Dying

Beatrice Marovich

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Columbia University Press
29 March 2023

Religion & politics

"Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marovich argues that such understandings of mortality have been deeply influenced by a strain of Christian political theology that has left its mark on both religious and secular narratives. Adapting the figure of ""Sister Death"" from Saint Francis of Assisi, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.

Drawing on a wide range of sources-from Toni Morrison to Jacques Derrida, psychoanalysis to grassroots ""death positive"" movements-Marovich critiques a racialized political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. In a time of extinctions, it is necessary to disrupt this dominant story in order to apprehend death as a collective, multispecies event. Sister Death proposes an alternative view in which life and death are not mortal enemies destined for mutual destruction. Instead, they are engaged in a contested, tense, and sometimes mutually empowering form of connection-a sisterhood.

Eloquent and approachable, this book deftly integrates the insights of a number of disciplines to provide a profound reconsideration of the relations between life and death. Sister Death also features a series of original works by the artist Krista Dragomer that stage an ongoing conceptual conversation with the text."

By: Beatrice Marovich
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231208376
ISBN 10: 0231208375
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 29 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Beatrice Marovich is associate professor of theological studies at Hanover College.

Reviews for Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying

Few of the countless books written about death are written with such brilliance, imagination, and grace. An exemplary collection of attentive, intelligent and generous readings, Sister Death offers a rethinking of much of the history of the Christian West's affective and reflective, martial and spiritual-and violent-rapport with death. -- Gil Anidjar, author of <i>Blood: A Critique of Christianity</i>