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Book SynopsisDecolonizing Interreligious Educationexplores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations most impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. It lifts up the voices of those speaking from embodied experience of suffering multiple oppressions based on negative constructs of race, religion, skin color, nationality, etc. Engaging ideological critique, construction of knowledge beyond dominant lenses, and acts of resistance are presented from the perspective of those most impacted by systemic injustice. It challenges interreligious education to frame encounters where the impact of intergeneration trauma and the realities of power differentials are recognized and the contributions of all voices are truly integrated. It challenges the fields of religious and interreligious education to imagine a broadened view that includes recognition of the role played by religion in harm done and to take a leadership role in engaging processes of accountability and redress.
Table of ContentsDedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Examining the Interreligious Imaginary
Chapter Two: The Project of Defining Coloniality
Chapter Three: The Relevance of Discourse Analysis for Interreligious Education
Chapter Four: Decolonial Insights from Practical Theology: Multi and Interreligious Communal Spiritual Care Practices of Resilience
Chapter Five: Critical Examination of Social Constructs and White Settler Colonialism
Chapter Six: Christian Supremacy, White Supremacy, and Systemic Injustice
Chapter Seven: Expanding the Interreligious Imaginary
Appendix
Bibliography
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