Pastoral power: Matthew Hannah

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-241
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Power

scholarly journals “No CCP, No New China”: Pastoral Power in Official Narratives in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 784-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Zhang ◽  
Melissa Shani Brown ◽  
David O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Pastoral Role ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
Regional Capital ◽  
Core Role ◽  
Power And Authority

AbstractGuided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and authority is created and reinforced across different spaces and texts. It demonstrates how both history and the present day are depicted in urban Xinjiang in order to portray the state in a pastoral role that legitimates its use of force, as well as emphasizing its core role in developing the region out of poverty and into “civilization.”

scholarly journals “Decently and order”: Scotland and Protestant pastoral power

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Mutch
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Foucault’s conceptualization of “pastoral power” is important in the development and application of the notion of “governmentality” or the regulation of mass populations. However, Foucault’s exploration of pastoral power, especially in the form of confessional practice, owes a good deal to his Roman Catholic heritage. Hints in his work, which were never developed, suggest some aspects of Protestant forms of pastoral power. These hints are taken up to explore one Protestant tradition, that of Scottish Presbyterianism, in detail. Based on the history of the church in the eighteenth century, four aspects of Protestant pastoral power are outlined: examination, accountability, ecclesiology, and organizing as a good in its own right.

scholarly journals Of Shepherds, Sheep and Sheepdogs? Governing the Adherent Self through Complementary and Competing ‘Pastorates’

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1069-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Waring ◽  
Asam Latif
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
The State ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Relational Practices ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Foucault’s concept of ‘pastoral power’ describes an important technique for constituting obedient subjects. Derived from his analysis of the Christian pastorate, he saw pastoral power as a prelude to contemporary technologies of governing ‘beyond the State’, where ‘experts’ shepherd self-governing subjects. However, the specific practices of modern pastorate have been little developed. This article examines the relational practices of pastoral power associated with the government of medicine use within the English healthcare system. The study shows how multiple pastors align their complementary and variegated practices to conduct behaviours, but also how pastors compete for legitimacy, and face resistance through the mobilisation of alternative discourses and the strategic exploitation of pastoral competition. The article offers a dynamic view of the modern pastorate within the contemporary assemblages of power.

Liturgical Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Heron
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Semantic History ◽  
Point Of Departure

The second chapter seeks to deepen and extend Agamben’s analysis by describing the terms of a specifically Christian technology of power. Its point of departure is Erik Peterson’s suggestion that the form of political action specific to Christianity coincides with the Church’s appropriation of the practice that in the ancient Greek polis was termed leitourgia; a suggestion which in turn stimulates a reappraisal of Foucault’s influential notion of pastoral power. “Pastoral power,” the chapter argues, on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of the semantic history of the term (laos) that in the Greek biblical tradition designates the “people” as the referent of pastoral intervention, is more precisely conceived as “liturgical power.” Only by emphasising its liturgical dimension, it contends, can we fully grasp the stakes of the process that Foucault himself suggestively described as the “institutionalisation of the pastorate” and which coincides with the establishment of a fundamental division in the single people of God.

Pastoral Power

MOVE ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 89-122
Author(s):  
Richard Kent Evans
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
The City

From 1977 to 1978, the Philadelphia Police Department established a blockade around the MOVE house. Eventually, this blockade became a starvation blockade, when the mayor, Frank Rizzo, determined that the best way to end the standoff was to starve MOVE people into surrendering. During this standoff, respected religious leaders representing various faith traditions negotiated between MOVE and the city. These religious leaders initially came to MOVE’s defense. Some of them believed that MOVE was a religion, and that the city’s actions threatened religious freedom in the city. As the negotiations wore on, however, MOVE lost their initial support. The religious leaders who previously defended MOVE decided that MOVE was not, in fact, a religion and sided with the city. In so doing, these religious leaders articulated a series of claims about the nature of “true religion” to explain why MOVE was not, in their view, a religion.

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