White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons From Mystics

Decades of work in dismantling racism have not yielded the kind of results for which religious educators have hoped. One primary reason has been what scholars term "white fragility," a symptom of the structural racism which confers systemic privilege upon White people. Lessons learned from...

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Main Author: Hess, Mary E. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2017]
In: Religious education
Year: 2017, Volume: 112, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-57
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBQ North America
RF Christian education; catechetics
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:Decades of work in dismantling racism have not yielded the kind of results for which religious educators have hoped. One primary reason has been what scholars term "white fragility," a symptom of the structural racism which confers systemic privilege upon White people. Lessons learned from Christian mystics point to powerful ways to confront and resist the siren call of such formation and instead to make resisting racism an integral part of Christian identity for White people.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2016.1253124