Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 War Bodies: Remembering Bodies in a Time of War

Chapter 3 Trauma, Reality, and Eucharist

Chapter 5 The Trauma of Racism and the Distorted White Imagination

Chapter 6 “Serving the Spirit of Goodness”: Spiritual and Theological Responses to Affliction in the Writings of St. John of the Cross and Louise Erdrich

Chapter 7 Elegy for a Lost World

Chapter 8 The Virtual Body of Christ and the Embrace of those Traumatized by Cancer

Chapter 9 Examining Restorative Justice: Theology, Traumatic Narratives, and Affective Responsibility

Chapter 10 9/11 Changed Things: The (Post-Traumatic) Religious Studies Classroom

Chapter 11 “La Mano Zurda with a Heart in Its Palm”: Mystical Activism as a Response to the Trauma of Immigration Detention

Chapter 12 Taking Matter Seriously : Material Theopoetics in the Aftermath of Communal Violence

Chapter 13 Traumas of Belonging: Imagined Communities of Nation, Religion, and Gender in Modernity