Praying for Freedom

Racism and Ignatian Spirituality in America

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-6791-0 (ISBN)

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Why do the Spiritual Exercises not change us as deeply as we hope? This is the haunting question that was raised at the recent general congregation of the Jesuits about Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises and the question the contributors to this book explore and attempt to answer in the context of ongoing racial injustice in the United States. All of us who love and are engaged in Ignatian spirituality must also ask ourselves this same question. Contributors explore this question by examining how “color-blindness racism” determines our interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises in the United States. Animated by the grace of Ignatius's conversion experience these spiritual directors, theologians, and leaders in Jesuit ministries offer insightful scholarly and creative pastoral engagement of the Spiritual Exercises for the ongoing journey of conversion from racism and white supremacy in the United States.

Contributors Include:
- Maka Black Elk (Oglala Lakota)
- Laurie Cassidy
- Matthew J. Cressler
- Paulina Delgadillo
- Elise Gower
- Armando Guerrero Estrada
- Jeannine Hill Fletcher
- Ken Homan, SJ
- Alex Mikulich
- Maria Teresa Morgan
- Marilyn L. Nash
- Maureen H. O'Connell
- Hung T. Pham, SJ
- Christopher Pramuk
- Andrew Prevot
- Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ
- Justin T. White

Laurie Cassidy, PhD, currently teaches in the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University and was associate professor in the religious studies department at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. An award-winning author and editor, her latest book, Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse, was edited with M. Shawn Copeland. Cassidy has been engaged in the ministry of spiritual direction for over thirty years, giving directed retreats around the United States. Raised in Massachusetts, she now makes her home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, traditional homeland of the Mouche band of the Nuche (today known as the Ute) in Colorado.

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Praying for Freedom 1
Laurie Cassidy

PART I
Presuppositions
1 Training the Soul: A Black Catholic Journey through the Spiritual Exercises 23
  Andrew Prevot
2 Digging into Jesuit Slaveholding, Digging into the Exercises 39
  Ken Homan, SJ
3 The Composition of Place in Ignatian Spirituality: Repositioning a Historical-Ecological Encounter with Jesus in the Context of Modernity/Coloniality 47
Alex Mikulich

PART II
The Spiritual Exercises
4 From Self-Centered to Other-Centered: Ignatian Indifference on Racial Differences 71
  Hung T. Pham, SJ
5 The Sins of White Supremacy: Institutionalized Racism and a Composition of Place 85
   Jeannine Hill Fletcher
6 The Gift of Tears: White Metanoia at the Foot of the Black Cross 105
  Christopher Pramuk
7 Resting Under the Standard of Christ: The Spiritual Exercises and Discerning White Supremacy 127
  Maureen H. O’Connell
8 Recuerda Que Jesús También Fue Niño: An Undocumented Reflection on the Spiritual Exercises 145
  Armando Guerrero Estrada and Paulina Delgadillo
9 Mephibosheth and Me: An Interpretive Ignatian Prayer of Memory and Imagination 153
María Teresa Morgan
10 Ignatian Discernment in a Diverse Ecosystem 159
Marilyn L. Nash
11 Seeing Bodies: Using the Separate Lenses Frantz Fanon and Ignatius of Loyola for Healing 175
  Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ

PART III
Contemplating God’s Laboring and Loving in the World
12 The Making and Unmaking of White Ignatian Formation 195
Matthew J. Cressler
13 The God of Us All: Praying with Black Spirituality 211
Justin White
14 The God of Us All: Examen Reflection 217
Elise Gower
15 Truth, Healing, and the Journey through Indigenous Catholic Boarding School History 221
Maka Black Elk
List of Contributors 227

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2024
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8146-6791-0 / 0814667910
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-6791-0 / 9780814667910
Zustand	Neuware