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| Genre/Form: | Church history |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher M Driscoll |
| ISBN: | 9781138909038 1138909033 9781138910997 1138910996 |
| OCLC Number: | 910664390 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: Sighting white American religion in twilight times -- In the shadows of whiteness: giving life (through death) to a white lie -- The white man's god complex: most Americans, the (white) power of theism, and beginning to believe in twilight -- Battling white lies: exaggerated identity and the twilight of American religion -- Accepting the hell of death: narrating sources, methods, and norms of a limited religious outlook -- Rejecting the "gift of death": white social responsibility in twilight times -- Requiem for whiteness: mourning, freedom in uncertainty, and the final embrace of twilight -- Postmortem: A warning. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher M. Driscoll. |
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"Throughout American history, most white folk have refused to acknowledge the depth, breadth, and power of whiteness. But not Chris Driscoll. In this provocative and searching book, he looks into the heart of whiteness and finds what so many women and men of color have seen before: pain, death, and deception. Part history, part philosophy, and part theology, White Lies contains loads of truth."Edward Blum, San Diego State University, USA"In this provocative new book, Driscoll 'sights, cites, and sites' white religion, drawing it into focus in an effort better to address the ways that whiteness functions religiously in America today. Suggesting that 'white religion' is a racially/religiously inflected inability to accept human limits, Driscoll mines existentialist, anthropological, and narrative sources to point us away from a paralytic cultural fear of death, toward a hopeful twilight of the (white) gods."Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University, USA"Responding to the growing visibility of mainstream violence directed to black bodies, White Lies performs a high-wire dance between philosophy and anthropology, God and idol, whiteness and its own possible 'dying' in the fraught space of America."James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA"White lies is a brilliant thought-provoking interruption of our god-idols - critical theory at its best, empowering us to go beyond white religion."Jurgen Manemann, Hanover Institute for Philosophical Research, Germany"Recommended"B. Weston, Centre College in CHOICE "Throughout American history, most white folk have refused to acknowledge the depth, breadth, and power of whiteness. But not Chris Driscoll. In this provocative and searching book, he looks into the heart of whiteness and finds what so many women and men of color have seen before: pain, death, and deception. Part history, part philosophy, and part theology, White Lies contains loads of truth."Edward Blum, San Diego State University, USA"In this provocative new book, Driscoll 'sights, cites, and sites' white religion, drawing it into focus in an effort better to address the ways that whiteness functions religiously in America today. Suggesting that 'white religion' is a racially/religiously inflected inability to accept human limits, Driscoll mines existentialist, anthropological, and narrative sources to point us away from a paralytic cultural fear of death, toward a hopeful twilight of the (white) gods."Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University, USA"Responding to the growing visibility of mainstream violence directed to black bodies, White Lies performs a high-wire dance between philosophy and anthropology, God and idol, whiteness and its own possible 'dying' in the fraught space of America."James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA"White lies is a brilliant thought-provoking interruption of our god-idols - critical theory at its best, empowering us to go beyond white religion."Jurgen Manemann, Hanover Institute for Philosophical Research, Germany Read more...
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