Discussing Racial Justice in Light of 2016: Black Lives Matter, a Trump Presidency, and the Continued Struggle for Justice
The broad fields of ethical reflection on racialization, racial justice, black liberation theology, and queer theology of color must come to terms with the year 2016, which can be framed on one side with the Black Lives Matter movement, and on the other side with a presidential election cycle in whi...
| Published in: | Journal of religious ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Journal of religious ethics
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| Review of: | Stand your ground : black bodies and the justice of God (Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 2015) (Dávila, María Teresa) Rainbow Theology : bridging race, sexuality and spirit (New York : Seabury Books, 2013) (Dávila, María Teresa) |
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Book review
B white exceptionalism B Political Theology B black natural law B Black lives matter movement B Christian Ethics B queer ethics B Mass Incarceration B Natural Law B racial justice B White Supremacy B Intersectionality B Racism |
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| Summary: | The broad fields of ethical reflection on racialization, racial justice, black liberation theology, and queer theology of color must come to terms with the year 2016, which can be framed on one side with the Black Lives Matter movement, and on the other side with a presidential election cycle in which racism and racial justice played particularly salient roles. Against this backdrop, this book discussion looks at recent literature on racial justice asking three questions. How does historical consciousness shape contemporary ethical thought on racial justice? In what ways do the intersectionalities of gender and sexuality, immigration and transnationality, class, and contemporary culture present particular challenges and new possibilities? And how do the ethical frameworks of religious traditions contribute to the development of public theology for racial justice? The conclusion considers how religious ethics concerned with racial justice does harm or contributes to religiously grounded responses to racial injustice. Reflection on these questions points to the need for ongoing engagement with the black experiencebroadly construed and within the context of multiple intersectionsin the United States and globally in ethical analysis. However, this in turn makes particular and critical demands on how it is that we are to both teach and read religious ethics and political theology at our institutions, as well as in the churches. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12199 |