Questioning our faith in practice unlearning white supremacy in practical theology by Katherine Turpin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turpin, Katherine, 1971- author.

Series:

Theology in practice v. 14

Theology in practice volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Practical.

White supremacy movements--Religious aspects--Christianity.

White supremacy movements.

Decolonization.

Postcolonial theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2025]

Summary:

"Practical theology emerged as a discipline steeped in white supremacy, traces of which can be found in some of its most central practices and habits of mind. Identifying the remnants of this legacy allows practical theologians to begin to imagine how to proceed without reinscribing narratives of white saviors, unlimited progress, dominating control of bodies, and individual heroic leadership. You are invited to question this worldview while learning from scholars imagining a decolonized future"-- Provided by publisher

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

Epilogue: Living the Questions

1 Original Sin, Shameful Hiding, and Right Repentance

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Turpin, Katherine, 1971- Questioning our faith in practice

ISBN:

900471426X

9789004714267

OCLC:

1457238182

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license