Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of white racialization in homiletics. The first section, Racial Hegemony, interrogates the white, colonial bias of Euro-American homiletical practice, pedagogy, and theory with particular attention to the intersection of preaching and racialization. The second section, Resistance and Possibilities, contributes diverse critical homiletical approaches emerging in conversation with racially-minoritized scholarship and racially subjugated knowledge and practice. By reading this book, preachers and professors of preaching will encounter alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.
Table of ContentsRacial Hegemony in Homiletics
1. The Missionary Connection: White Preaching in the British Colonies of the Caribbean
Gennifer Benjamin Brooks
2. Unmasking the Homiletical Whiteness of Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority
Debra J. Mumford
3. The Towering Sermon: Duke Chapel as Monument to White Supremacy
Peace Pyunghwa Lee and David Stark
4. Theorizing about the Whiteness of Asian American Homiletics Gerald C. Liu
5. White Mainline Protestant Preachers Addressing Racial Issues: 2017 v. 2021 Leah D. Schade
6. Civility and the “Purple Church”: An Insufficient Response to White Supremacy
Andrew Thompson Scales
7. Resisting White Fragility: Preaching towards Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Canada Sarah Travis
8. Through a Glass Dimly: White Preaching and Epistemological Ignorance Christopher M. Baker
Resistance and Possibilities in Homiletics
9. Multi-Tasking Preaching: The Liberating Power of Unmasking Whiteness from the Pulpit
HyeRan Kim-Cragg
10. Wrestling with Whiteness in Homiletic Pedagogy: A Reflection on Teaching “Proclaiming Justice in the Church & Public Square” Richard W. Voelz
11. Of Handmaids, Mediatrixes and Mothers: The Idealized Feminine and Rhetorics of Whiteness Jerusha Matsen Neal
12. Betraying White Preaching: Homiletical Domination, Racial Treason, and the Pursuit of Abolition Andrew Wymer
13. Who Are You?: White Identity Formation and Re-Formation in Homiletics
Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne
14. Non-Preaching?: Unmasking [White] Preaching Through Negation Lis Valle-Ruiz
15. An Icon of Exclusion: Deconstructing the Pulpit through the Homiletical Practice of Black Women
Chelsea Brooke Yarborough
