Alexander Jun, Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet, Allison N. Ash, Christopher S. Collins

White Jesus (eBook, ePUB)

The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus-a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation-that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in epistemic and physical ways. The authors distinguish White Jesus from Jesus of the Gospels, the one whose life, death, and resurrection demands sacrificial love as a response-a love ethic. White Jesus is a fraudulent scheme that many devotees of Jesus of Bethlehem naively fell for. This book is about naming the lies, reclaiming the person of Jesus, and reasserting a vision of power that locates Jesus of the Gospels in solidarity with the easily disposed. The catalytic, animating, and life-altering power of the cross of Jesus is enough to subdue White Jesus and his patronage.



White Jesus can be used in a variety of academic disciplines, including education, religion, sociology, and cultural studies. Furthermore, the book will be useful for Christian institutions working to evaluate the images and ideologies of Jesus that shape their biblical ethics, as well as churches in the U.S. that are invested in breaking the mold of homogeneity, civil religion, and uncoupling commitments to patriotism from loyalty to one Kingdom. Educational institutions and religious organizations that are committed to combining justice and diversity efforts with a Jesus ethic will find White Jesus to be a compelling primer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433157714
• Artikelnr.: 57495672

Autorenporträt

Alexander Jun is a professor of higher education at Azusa Pacific University. He earned a Ph.D. in higher education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.



Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet is an assistant professor in the Department of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. She holds a Ph.D. in education from Claremont Graduate University.



Allison N. Ash is Dean of Student Care and Graduate Student Life at Wheaton College. She earned a Ph.D. in higher education from Azusa Pacific University.



Christopher S. Collins is an associate professor of higher education at Azusa Pacific University and earned a Ph.D. in higher education and organizational change at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures - Foreword - Introduction: The White Architecture of Salvation - White Civil Religion, Empire, and Dominance - How Christianity Became White - The Religious White - White Saviors Proselytizing "Pagans": Missionaries, Boarding Schools, and Adoption - Whiteness in Christian Higher Education - White Worship - Before Jesus Became White - Afterword - Index.

Rezensionen

"White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education is a book that deals with the religion of Whiteness and its discontents. A very ambitious text, White Jesus seeks to correct the many harms and long-standing traumas that Whiteness as religion has inflicted upon non-White peoples all over the world. Concerned with dismantling White supremacy, it correctly identifies the marriage between Whiteness and Christianity as the starting point for such an endeavor. The authors of this book do an excellent job in dissecting and criticizing the many layers of White religion. From architecture to higher education to missions to liturgy to the ideologies of empire, the historical, cultural, and institutional entanglements of Whiteness and Christianity are laid bare. The gravity of Whiteness and Christianity will force readers to rethink Catholicism, the legacies of the Protestant Reformation, and biblical texts. White audiences, particularly White Christians, who avail themselves to a critique of Whiteness and Christian identity, will be compelled to reimagine Whiteness and Christian identity. White Jesus is a timely text that speaks to our contemporary context, where a global resurgence of White nationalism in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world is reproducing the many problems this book seeks to overcome. I highly recommend White Jesus; it is a necessary book for our times." -Ronald B. Neal, Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University