White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education
Christopher S. Collins, "White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education "
English | ISBN: 1433157683 | 2018 | 120 pages | PDF | 1472 KB
English | ISBN: 1433157683 | 2018 | 120 pages | PDF | 1472 KB
In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus―a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation―that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in epistemic and physical ways. The authors distinguish White Jesus from Jesus of the Gospels, the one whose life, death, and resurrection demands sacrificial love as a response―a love ethic. White Jesus is a fraudulent scheme that many devotees of Jesus of Bethlehem naively fell for. This book is about naming the lies, reclaiming the person of Jesus, and reasserting a vision of power that locates Jesus of the Gospels in solidarity with the easily disposed. The catalytic, animating, and life-altering power of the cross of Jesus is enough to subdue White Jesus and his patronage.
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