Organizing race: taking race seriously in faith-based community organizing

Faith-based community organizing is receiving an increasing amount of attention from scholars of religious ethics. This essay is motivated by the worry that accounts of such organizing depend on a problematic embrace of multiculturalism, an embrace characteristic of our neoliberal era. Like the powe...

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Nebentitel:Focus on race and ethics
1. VerfasserIn: Lloyd, Vincent 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley [2014]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2014, Band: 42, Heft: 4, Seiten: 640-660
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B USA / Gemeinwesenarbeit / Religionsgemeinschaft / Multikulturelle Gesellschaft / Bürgerrechtsbewegung / Ethik
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
CD Christentum und Kultur
KBQ Nordamerika
NCC Sozialethik
NCD Politische Ethik
RB Kirchliches Amt; Gemeinde
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Zusammenfassung:Faith-based community organizing is receiving an increasing amount of attention from scholars of religious ethics. This essay is motivated by the worry that accounts of such organizing depend on a problematic embrace of multiculturalism, an embrace characteristic of our neoliberal era. Like the powers that they purport to challenge, organizing efforts often embrace difference (racial, gender, and religious) only when it is carefully managed. This is being challenged by theological accounts of organizing that take the religious dimension of such efforts seriously, as well as by feminist critiques of community organizing. This essay probes how race might be taken just as seriously by religious ethicists who study community organizing. Drawing on the civil rights movement's legacy of faith-based community mobilization as well as traditions of Black theological reflection, this essay challenges the easy embrace of multi-racial coalitions in faith-based organizing.
ISSN:0384-9694
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12076