@article{930299,
      author = {Dickinson, Colby,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/930299},
      title = {The fetish of theology : the challenge of the  fetish-object to modernity /},
      abstract = {By delving into the history of the fetish-object among  both modern and contemporary commentators, this book  highlights the fetish-objects role as a philosophical and  religious concept of the highest significance.  Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles  for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical)  power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary  location for transcendence in our world. This book defines  the political consequences of fetish-objects within a  western cultural, and primarily theological context through  a comparative approach of various literatures on  fetish-objectsanthropological to the psychological, Marxist  to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of  resistance to oppressive structures, something which  motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped  our western understanding of the sacraments far more than  has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise  holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how  fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak  profoundly to our late-modern selves.},
      recid = {930299},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}