Visions, Imagination, and Dreams in the Work of Ethics: What Does it Mean for Us to be Religious Scholars Sixty Years After King’s Dream?
This essay addresses what is at the foundation of the US’s seemingly inherent “resistance” to racial justice and hence to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. This resistance is rooted in a moral imaginary corrupted by an epistemological gaze defined by whiteness and informed by anti-Blackness. For relig...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2023
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-261 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics |
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| Summary: | This essay addresses what is at the foundation of the US’s seemingly inherent “resistance” to racial justice and hence to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. This resistance is rooted in a moral imaginary corrupted by an epistemological gaze defined by whiteness and informed by anti-Blackness. For religious scholars, this means that we must adopt a preferential option for the knowledge and voices of those who historically have been granted little or no epistemic authority within our disciplines. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Response to Kelly Brown Douglas (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/jsce20241391 |