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Subject(s)

• Racism—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Race relations—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Sacred books—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Havea, Jione, 1965- [Browse]
• Vinayarāj, Vai. T̲t̲i [Browse]

Series

Intersectionality and theology series. [More in this series]

Summary note

"Transgressing is an appropriate response to race as 'a crime against humanity.' No one chooses their race at birth, yet many suffer because of their race. And while many people choose to change citizenship, their accents and faces can give them away as outsiders. Racism thrives on the categorization of people according to their race. Like the Black and White dichotomy, other racial and ethnic discriminations such as casteism, antisemitism, Zionism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia undergird and promote segregation all around the world. Dismantling racism requires challenging racialized oppressions and segregations in sacred texts and contexts, in beloved traditions and hallowed theologies. This book offers such biblical and theological discourses in order to transgress the discriminative segregations of racism in connection with other forms of exploitative systems (or shitstems). The book engages with racialized biblical texts and religious theologies, with acts of racial discrimination in connection with slavery and colonialism, with agonies of people in diaspora, struggles of postcolonial minoritized people, courage of indigenous people to subvert, and with the race-insensitive practices of theological and religious education. The contributors are located in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe, and Oceania." -- Page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part one: transgressing readings
• Transgressing race / Jione Havea
• Fleshed out? : reading Miriam in Zora Neale Hurston's rewriting of Exodus / Tat-Sion and Benny Liew
• Reading the Qur'an with a humanisitc approach / Arif K. Abdullah
• Rereading the Aqedah (Genesis 22) with a caste lens : Abraham as trans-religious father for Hindus / Elizabeth Joy
• A transgressive companionship of Mary and Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-45) : a homiletical imagination / HyeRan Kim-Cragg
• Part two: transgressing theologies
• The race of religion and politics in old/new Malaysia / Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
• The bio-politics of the crucified : transgressing the phenomenology of violence in terms of race and caste / Y.T. Vinayaraj
• Part three: transgressing belongings
• Give nothing to racism : Tangata Whenua, people of the land, a Canaanite woman, and Jesus / Wayne Te Kaawa
• Shades of racism : brown in New Zealand, tanned in Samoa / Rene S. Maiava
• The beatitudes as lectio divinia : rereading Matthew 5:3-12 with indigenous Australia / Robyn Heckenberg
• DAREing to be radically theol-logical : an insider interrrogation of indgenous theology / Jenny Te Paa Daniel.

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ISBN

• 1666741302 ((hardcover))
• 9781666741308 ((hardcover))
• 9781666741292 ((paperback))
• 1666741299 ((paperback))

LCCN

2023280950

OCLC

1396789525

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