The otherwise and grace: Exploring theopolitical connections

Although they are not often in explicit conversation with each other, several scholarly contributions about the otherwise and grace, respectively, echo each other in striking ways. In this article, the author explores some of these echoes. Assembling theoretically various approaches to the otherwise and grace allows him to show that they both tread on similar theopolitical paths, and to identify three points on which they converge: excess, incarnation and turbulence. The article is structured around these three confluences. Each section begins with a description of a particular way of approaching the otherwise, which is then compared with a similar way of approaching grace. Each section concludes with reflections on the spaces of convergence thus identified, and it is argued that they constitute promising sites for the deployment of a 'theopolitical analytics' in anthropology. Bien qu'elles ne soient pas souvent mises en conversation les unes avec les autres, de nombreuses contributions academiques traitant respectivement de l'autrement et de la grace se font echo de facons surprenantes. Dans cet article, j'explore quelques-uns de ces echos. Ce rapprochement theorique de diverses facons de concevoir l'autrement et la grace me permet de montrer qu'ils suivent tous deux des chemins theopolitiques similaires et d'identifier trois points vers lesquels ils convergent: l'exces, l'incarnation et la turbulence. L'article est structure autour de ces trois confluences. Chaque section debute avec la description d'une facon particuliere d'approcher l'autrement qui est par le suite comparee avec une approche similaire de la grace. Je conclue chaque section avec des reflexions sur les espaces de convergence ainsi identifies et soutiens qu'ils constituent des sites prometteurs pour le developpement d'une analytique theopolitique en anthropologie.

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This article explores the echoes between scholarly contributions about the otherwise and grace, highlighting their striking similarities in theopolitical paths. By comparing various approaches to the otherwise and grace, the author identifies three points of convergence: excess, incarnation, and turbulence. The article suggests that these convergences offer promising sites for the deployment of a 'theopolitical analytics' in anthropology.