Christology and whiteness : what would Jesus do? / edited by George Yancy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yancy, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Race awareness.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Race relations.

Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores Christology through the lens of whiteness, addressing whiteness as a site of privilege and power within the specific context of Christology. It asks whether or not Jesus' life and work offers theological, religious and ethical resources that can address the question of contemporary forms of white privilege. The text seeks to encourage ways of thinking about whiteness theologically through the mission of Jesus. In this sense, white Christians are encouraged to reflect on how their whiteness is a site of tension in relation to their theological and religious framework. A distinguished team of contributors explore key topics including the Christlike of domination, different images of Jesus and the question of identification with Jesus, and the Black Jesus of the inner city. (Back cover).

Contents:

Introduction : framing the problem / George Yancy

What Jesus wouldn't do : a white theologian engages whiteness / Karen Teel

Grotesque un/knowing of suffering : a white Christian response / Laurie M. CAssidy

Jesus must needs go through Samaria : disestablishing the mountains of race and the hegemony of whiteness / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

The Black church and whiteness : looking for Jesus in strange paces / Moni McIntyre

What would Zacchaeus do? the case for disidentifying with Jesus / Jennifer Harvey

Is Christ white? racism and Christology / Rosemary Radford Ruether

When a white man-god is the truth and the way for black Christians / Raci C. West

Who belongs to Christ? / Josiah U. Young III

Upstart Messiahs, renegade Saritans, and temple exorcisms : what can Jesus' peasant resistance movement in first-century Palestine teach us about confronting "color-blind" whiteness today? / james W. Perkinson

Jesus, Whiteness, and the disinherited / William David Hart

Looking like me? : Jesus images, Christology, and the limitations fo theological blackness / Anthony B. Pinn

The (black) Jesus of Detroit : reflections on black power and the (white) American Christ / M Shawn Copeland

The mimesis of salvation and dissimilitude in the scandalous gospel of Jesus / Victor Anderson.

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-25670-9

0-415-69998-3

1-283-60677-1

9786613919229

1-136-25671-7

0-203-10612-1

9780203106129

OCLC:

811506392