Questioning Our Faith in Practice

Unlearning White Supremacy in Practical Theology

Katherine Turpin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71424-3 (ISBN)

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Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Questioning One’s Own Faith

1 Defining Whiteness and White Supremacy

2 Salvation beyond White Supremacy

3 Why “Questioning”?

4 “You’ll Lose Your Faith”?

5 How to Read This Book

2 Questioning Practice

1 Practice and the Transmission of Virtue

2 Practice and Symbolic Violence

3 Accounting for the Ambivalent Nature of Christian Practice

4 Innocence, Purity, and Complicity: Reimagining White Christian Practice

3 Questioning Education

1 Teaching as Universal Mandate for Conversion

2 Education, Civilization, and Imperial Force

3 Pedagogical Eternalities and the Education of Children

4 Education with Humility

4 Questioning Intervention

1 The Role of Intervention in Practical Theological Reflection

2 Agency, Assumed Control, and the White Savior

3 Intervention as Religious Meaning-Making

4 The Myth of Progress and Salvation as Whiteness

5 From Intervention to Design for Collective Flourishing

5 Questioning Leadership

1 On Leaders and Followers

2 From Corporate Rock Star to Interdependent Co-collaborators

3 The Paradox of Servant Leadership

4 Decolonizing and Liberating Leadership

5 Fragment Workers and Poetic Imagination

6 Questioning Congregations

1 The Prominence of the Congregation in White Christianity

2 Congregations as Institutions of Whiteness

3 Decolonizing Community and Moving beyond Congregations

7 Questioning the Apologetic and Affiliative Function of Practical Theology

1 What Are Apologetics, and How do Practical Theologians Get Drawn into Them?

2 When Describing Practice Becomes Advocating for Practice

3 Demand for Institutional Loyalty and Assimilation

8 Questioning Christianity

1 Christian Privilege and the Racialization of Religious Identity

2 Struggling with Normativity and Universality in White Theology

3 Interreligious Practical Theology and Multiple Religious Belonging

4 A Somewhat Less-Christian Practical Theological Reflection Cycle

9 Questioning Anthropocentrism

1 Refuting Theologies of Human Domin[at]ion

2 Restoring Connection to All Our Relations

3 Legacy Fears of Heresy and Syncretism

4 A Somewhat Less-Christian Practical Theological Reflection Cycle

Epilogue: Living the Questions

1 Original Sin, Shameful Hiding, and Right Repentance

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Theology in Practice ; 14
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	90-04-71424-3 / 9004714243
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71424-3 / 9789004714243
Zustand	Neuware