Resisting the Building Project of Whiteness: A Theological Reflection on Land Ownership in the Church of England
Willie James Jennings contends that the goal of whiteness is the creation and preservation of segregated space. For Jennings, whiteness, as well as upholding perceived notions of white normativity, is a way of being in the world, an imagined reality made real by our movement in physical space which...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 122-141 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church NCC Social ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
THEOLOGY OF PLACE
B Willie James Jennings B Ecclesial ethics B Church of England B Parish B James H. Cone B Land B Pope Francis B Colonialism B Anglican B climate crisis B Michael Northcott B Whiteness |
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| Summary: | Willie James Jennings contends that the goal of whiteness is the creation and preservation of segregated space. For Jennings, whiteness, as well as upholding perceived notions of white normativity, is a way of being in the world, an imagined reality made real by our movement in physical space which destroys the identity-forming connections between communities and land. In this article I bring together Pope Francis’s reflections on the globalised economy in Laudato Si’ with the critiques of James H. Cone and Jennings to demonstrate the horrific harm of whiteness on marginalised people groups and the land itself. To resist the building project of whiteness, therefore, requires attention to our relationship with land. At this point I turn more readily to the land of England, offering the beginnings of a theology of place given the substantial land holdings of the Church of England. I close by asking whether the Church of England can be trusted to use its land to dismantle whiteness given its troubling colonial history in relation to land use. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09539468231216900 |