Unmasking White Preaching

Andrew Wymer; Lis Valle-Ruiz

doi:10.5771/9781793653000

Summary

This book examines the impact of white racialization in homiletics. The first section, Racial Hegemony, interrogates the white, colonial bias of Euro-American homiletical practice, pedagogy, and theory with particular attention to the intersection of preaching and racialization. The second section, Resistance and Possibilities, contributes diverse critical homiletical approaches emerging in conversation with racially-minoritized scholarship and racially subjugated knowledge and practice. By reading this book, preachers and professors of preaching will encounter alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5299-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5300-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. The Yearnings of the Volume No access
2. Learnings from Our Journey No access
3. The Flow of the Volume No access
4. Note No access
1. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Analysis No access
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  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Planning a Monument to White Supremacy No access
  2. The Towering Sermon Today No access
  3. A Building That Glories in the Crumbling No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
4. 1. A Trauma from White Preaching No access
  2. A Deficiency of Asian American Considerations No access
  3. The Koreanness of Asian American Preaching No access
  4. A Broader Conundrum of Asian American Homiletics No access
  5. An Inescapability of Normative Whiteness No access
  6. Two Horizons for Defining Asian American Homiletics No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Churches and Clergy Awakening to the Call to Address Racism No access
  3. Methodology No access
  4. Clergy Attitudes Regarding Preaching about Social Issues: An Overview No access
  5. Barriers to Preaching about Social Issues No access
  6. Effects of Congregational Racial Diversity on Preachers Feeling Inhibited to Address Social Issues No access
  7. 1. Preaching in Predominantly White Congregations vs. More Diverse Congregations No access
  8. Complicating Factors for Clergy Addressing Racial Issues No access
  9. Recommendations No access
  10. Conclusion No access
  11. Notes No access
  12. Bibliography No access
6. 1. Introduction: “Purple Church” and the Problem of Racism No access
  2. A Sketch of “Purple Church” and White Civility in the News No access
  3. Preaching in the Purple Zone: Invitation to Dialogue about Controversial Issues, Mutual Discernment, and Communal Proclamation of Beliefs No access
  4. A House United and the Problem of “Both Sides” Equivalencies in “Purple Church” Discourse No access
  5. The Problem of Racism in American Majority-White Congregations No access
  6. Conclusion: Moving from Purple Church Civility to Repentance and Witness No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
7. 1. Colonialism and Reconciliation in Canada No access
  2. White Fragility and Settler Fragility No access
  3. Fragility as a Barrier No access
  4. Preaching as Capacity-Building No access
  5. Exposure to Discomfort No access
  6. Decentering Whiteness No access
  7. Practicing Restorative Solidarity No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
8. 1. Introduction: Black Lives, White Opinions No access
  2. The Whiteness of White Preaching No access
  3. White Epistemological Ignorance, Storytelling, and Counter-Storytelling No access
  4. Case Study: Wilmington, North Carolina No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. A Concept of Whiteness and Its Connection to Preaching No access
  2. Preaching as Reading with Eyes Opened No access
  3. 1. Behind No access
    2. Between No access
    3. Before No access
  4. Preaching as Writing with Keen Self-Awareness No access
  5. Preaching as Seeing through Art and Space in Worship No access
  6. Preaching as Hearing through Language No access
  7. Cautious Words instead of a Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Institution, History, Geography No access
    2. Students No access
  2. Pedagogical Principles and Strategies No access
  3. Pedagogical Observations No access
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  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. The Paradox of the “Handless Maiden”: A Parable No access
  2. “Proper Rhetoric,” “Proper Women,” and Whiteness No access
  3. 1. Jacqueline Jones Royster and the Tactic of “Listening” No access
    2. Shirley Wilson Logan and the Tactic of “Speaking the Unspeakable” No access
    3. Ellen Gil-Gomez and the Tactic of “Piece-Making” No access
  4. Hands of Flesh No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. “Unmasking” White Preaching No access
  2. Abolition and Racial Treason No access
  3. “How to Be a Race Traitor” Homiletically Revisited No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Prologue No access
  2. Effects of Unexamined Dominant Colonial Narrative No access
  3. Effects of Unexamined Personal Narrative No access
  4. Identity Formation and Re-formation No access
  5. 1. Critical Analysis of Country of Residence No access
    2. Critical Analysis of Personal Narrative No access
    3. Critical Analysis of Worldview No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
6. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Sofía Divinatrix Presents “An Exorcism of White Supremacy” No access
  3. Burlesque-esque Negates White Preaching No access
  4. Sofía Divinatrix as Prophet and Holy Fool No access
  5. Sofía Divinatrix as Puerto Rican Actress Preacher No access
  6. Social Norms Established by a Western and Euro-Descendant Gaze upon Christian Preaching No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
7. 1. Introduction: The Single Story of the Sermon No access
  2. The Problem with the Pulpit No access
  3. 1. New Preaching Platforms No access
    2. Beyond Orality No access
  4. Conclusion: A Consideration beyond the Single Story No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
(In)conclusion No access Pages 231 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 236
About the Contributors No access Pages 237 - 240