Racial profiling?: Theorizing essentialism, whiteness, and scripture in the study of religion
Leaders in the American Academy of Religion have committed the guild to resisting the current wave of white nationalist and white supremacist machinations, presenting our discipline as particularly suited for the task. But given the study of religion's intimate historical relationship with the...
| Published in: | Religion compass |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion compass
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Science of Religion
/ Bible reading
/ Essentialism
/ Whites
/ Hegemony
/ Nationalism
/ Racism
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Deconstruction
B AAR B Essentialism B Scriptures B Bible B Race B Religion B interpreters B Whiteness |
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| Summary: | Leaders in the American Academy of Religion have committed the guild to resisting the current wave of white nationalist and white supremacist machinations, presenting our discipline as particularly suited for the task. But given the study of religion's intimate historical relationship with the modern Christian colonial project, scholars can equally find themselves reinforcing the socio-interpretive modalities—namely essentialism—upon which whiteness is premised. This paper presents critical scripture studies, particularly its elaboration of processes abbreviated in biblical interpretation, as an avenue for deconstructing assumptions about how whiteness works. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12369 |