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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Auteur principal: Hess, Mary E. 1963- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2017]
Dans: Religious education
Année: 2017, Volume: 112, Numéro: 1, Pages: 46-57
RelBib Classification:CB Spiritualité chrétienne
CH Christianisme et société
KBN Afrique subsaharienne
KBQ Amérique du Nord
RF Pédagogie religieuse
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2016.1253124