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Questioning Our Faith in Practice
Unlearning White Supremacy in Practical Theology
Series: - Theology in Practice, Volume: 14
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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
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