Racializing Jesus

Racializing Jesus
Author: Shawn Kelley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134735537

Shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world are infused with the idea of race and how this thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship. Explores a wide range of current debate.

Post-Christian Feminisms

Post-Christian Feminisms
Author: Lisa Isherwood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317077490

This book explores the impact and contribution of post-theories in the field of Christian feminist theology. Post-theory is an important and cutting-edge discursive field which has revolutionized the production of knowledge in both feminism and theology. This book fills a gap by providing a text that can make authoritative statements on the use and status of post-theory in feminist theology, and secondly it makes an on-going contribution to the discourse of Christian feminist theology and its liberation agenda. Distinguished and established scholars contribute conclusive essays on the most recent and exciting developments in post-theory, feminism and theology.

Racializing Jesus

Racializing Jesus
Author: Shawn Kelley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780415283731

Shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world are infused with the idea of race and how this thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship. Explores a wide range of current debate.

The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew's Passion Narrative

The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew's Passion Narrative
Author: Wongi Park
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2019-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030023788

In Matthew’s passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus. The repetition of the title “King of the Judeans” foregrounds the politics of race and ethnicity. Despite the explicit use of terminology, previous scholarship has understood the title curiously in non-ethnoracial ways. This book takes the peculiar omission in the history of interpretation as its point of departure. It provides an expanded ethnoracial reading of the text, and poses a fundamental ideological question that interrogates the pattern in the larger context of modern biblical scholarship. Wongi Park issues a critique of the dominant narrative and presents an alternative reading of Matthew’s passion narrative. He identifies a critical vocabulary and framework of analysis to decode the politics of race and ethnicity implicit in the history of interpretation. Ultimately, the book lends itself to a broader research agenda: the destabilization of the dominant narrative of early Christianity’s non-ethnoracial origins.

Prejudice and Christian Beginnings

Prejudice and Christian Beginnings
Author: Laura Nasrallah
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451412851

While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have recently focused attention on ethnicity, on the one hand, and gender on the other, the two questions have often been discussed separately-and without reference to the contemporary critical study of race theory. This interdisciplinary volume addresses this lack by drawing together new essays by prominent scholars in the fields of New Testament, classics, and Jewish studies. These essays push against the marginalization of race and ethnicity studies and put the received wisdom of New Testament studies squarely in the foreground.

The Color of God in the Crossroads of War

The Color of God in the Crossroads of War
Author: Longy O. Anyanwu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 152752728X

This book is a faith-based, heartfelt exposition of the Bible truth. It investigates the translational environment of the leading English versions of the Bible and their guiding sources; the age of our universe; the color lineage of Jesus; the role of Africa in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ; and the invisible war at the crossroads of life. It interrogates the intrusions and fundamentality of racism in Christianity in a manner that is at once critical, engaging and persuasive. It shows how such problems stem from the different versions and translations of the holy book that have deliberately sought to present God and His only begotten son Jesus Christ in a Caucasian manner.

Race and Racism in Education

Race and Racism in Education
Author: Liz Jackson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-12-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000805344

Racism has been endemic in the history of western societies, while the nature of race as a social category of difference is controversial and rigorously contested from scholarly and everyday perspectives today. This edited collection traces the history of considerations of the meaning and importance of race and racism in society and education through a deep dive into the contents of the archives of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. Journal articles from the 1970s to today have been carefully selected throughout the text to showcase the trends and transformations in the field of educational philosophy over time. While historically western analytic philosophy of education did not focus particularly on race and racism, this changed in the 1990s, with the emergence of critical conversations about social justice that moved beyond liberal models. More recently, historical and theoretical accounts have sought to understand the processes of racialization in depth, as well as the intersectional nature of race privilege and discrimination across contemporary diverse societies worldwide. Taken together, the pieces in this book illustrates both the history of theorizing about race and racism in educational philosophy and theory as well as the breadth of present-day concerns. This collection provides a foundation for developing a historical understanding of the position of race and racism in philosophy of education, while it also inspires new works in Critical Race Theory, Black and African Studies, critical pedagogy, and related areas. Additionally, it will inspire educators and scholars across diverse fields to further consider the significance of race and racism in education and in research in the present age.

Racialization

Racialization
Author: Karim Murji
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199257027

Racialization has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism. It is widely used in both theoretical and empirical studies of racial situations. There has been a proliferation of texts that use this notion in quite diverse ways. It is used broadly to refer to ways of thinking about race as well as to institutional processes that give expression to forms of ethno-racial categorization. An important issue in the work of writers such as Robert Miles, for example, concerns the ways in which the construction of race is shaped historically and how the usage of that idea forms a basis for exclusionary practices. The concept therefore refers both to cultural or political processes or situations where race is invoked as an explanation, as well as to specific ideological practices in which race is deployed. It is evident, however, that despite the increasing popularity of the concept of racialization there has been relatively little critical analysis exploring its theoretical and empirical usages. It is with this underlying concern in mind that Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice brings together leading international scholars in the field of race and ethnicity in order to explore both the utility of the concept and its limitations.

Why This New Race

Why This New Race
Author: Denise Buell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231133359

Denise Kimber Buell radically rethinks the origins of Christian identity, arguing that race and ethnicity played a central role in early Christian theology. Focusing on texts written before the legalization of Christianity in 313 C.E., including Greek apologetic treatises, martyr narratives, and works by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian, Buell shows how philosophers and theologians defined Christians as a distinct group within the Roman world, characterizing Christianness as something both fixed in its essence and fluid in its acquisition through conversion. Buell demonstrates how this view allowed Christians to establish boundaries around the meaning of Christianness and to develop the kind of universalizing claims aimed at uniting all members of the faith. Her arguments challenge generations of scholars who have refused to acknowledge ethnic reasoning in early Christian discourses. They also provide crucial insight into the historical legacy of Christian anti-Semitism and contemporary issues of race.