Spirituality as Resistance: What would Jesus buy?

Abstract

There are several frames of resistance mediated through popular cultural visual texts; like spirituality, civil action and so on - we must note that these would not fall into the category of direct political action. Now, resistance is as much a patch work of methods, as it is filamented. Resistance is both interpretative (reactionary, arising as a response to stimulus) and subversive (progressive and pro-active), in relation to authoritarian processes and metanarratives. For instance, in Bill Talen’s political theater, we see how he and his colleagues mediate their Leftist Christian views through pastiche- they rely on parody, dystopia, and theothanatology, inversion of the conventional performance theatre, inscription and inversion of liberation theology. Keywords: Political Theater, Post Colonialism, Spirituality, Stand-up Comedy, Postmodernism, Civil Society.