Draw your weapons sarah sentilles5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() One, a theologian named Gordon Kaufman, mentored Sentilles in graduate school. ![]() Though its moments of cultural analysis carry echoes of writers like Sontag and John Berger, “Draw Your Weapons” also grew from the seeds of two less obvious influences. It’s a book in which Jesus and Colin Powell mingle with Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag and Lucretius. Sentilles’s profiles of two men who created art as a response to war - one who had been a conscientious objector during World War II, another who worked as a prison guard at Abu Ghraib - play a prominent role in the book, which also ranges widely through issues of photographic representation, empathy, activism and pacifism. Her thoughts about the “theological strains” that run through “the intersection of religion and violence,” she told me, was the start of a long process that led to her unclassifiable new book, “Draw Your Weapons.” As a religious scholar, Sentilles was fascinated by the way some of the images were compared to Crucifixion scenes. ![]() Sarah Sentilles was a doctoral student in theology at Harvard when the photos of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib surfaced in 2004. ![]()
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