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- Title
Racial profiling?: Theorizing essentialism, whiteness, and scripture in the study of religion.
- Authors
Newton, Richard
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Academy of Religion; RELIGIONS; BIBLICAL criticism
- Publication
Religion Compass, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
1749-8171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rec3.12369