Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are Progressive White Christians Getting It Right?
The core question guiding this research is: What happens when the project of racial justice, specifically, anti-black racism, is taken on by white progressive Christians and their churches? Acknowledging religion as racialized allows our scholarship to be more discerning and less naive, especially r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Sociology of religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 85, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-273 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Alliance of Baptists
/ Anti-racism
/ Progressivism
/ Christian
/ Whites
/ Blacks
/ Identity
/ History 2020-2024
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDG Free church NCC Social ethics RB Church office; congregation TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | The core question guiding this research is: What happens when the project of racial justice, specifically, anti-black racism, is taken on by white progressive Christians and their churches? Acknowledging religion as racialized allows our scholarship to be more discerning and less naive, especially regarding the true potential of racial justice—even among those who are most faithfully attempting to become antiracist. Drawing from preliminary data collected from congregations in the United States and Canada aligned with the Alliance of Baptists, a denomination explicitly committed to antiracism, I focus on a few significant dynamics, briefly summarized under seven themes: (1) Getting It Right, (2) The Volunteer Antiracist, (3) Congregational Politics, (4) Encountering Resistance, (5) Soliciting Cooperation, (6) Instrumentalizing Whiteness as a Ready Tool, and (7) Affirmation from Black Members. As data collection continues, this research remains open to developing more insights and revising tentative conclusions as the analysis proceeds further. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad054 |
