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This 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.
List of contents
Racial 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 Hom
About the author
Lis Valle-Ruiz is assistant professor of homiletics and worship and director of community worship life at McCormick Theological Seminary.Andrew Wymer is assistant professor of liturgical studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.Leah D. Schade is the associate professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky. An ordained Lutheran minister (ELCA) for more than twenty years, she has pastored three Pennsylvania congregations in suburban, urban, and rural contexts. Her book, Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), explores how clergy and congregations can address controversial social issues using nonpartisan, biblically-centered approaches and deliberative dialogue. She is also the author of Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit, as well as For the Beauty of the Earth, a Creation-centered Lenten devotional. She is co-editor and author with Margaret Bullitt-Jonas of Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and co-author with Jerry Sumney of Apocalypse When?: A Guide to Interpreting and Preaching Apocalyptic Texts. She is the lead author, with Elizabeth Askew and Jerry Sumney, of Introduction to Preaching: Scripture, Theology, and Sermon Preparation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Rev. Dr. Schade is also the EcoPreacher blogger for Patheos.Lis Valle-Ruiz is assistant professor of homiletics and worship and director of community worship life at McCormick Theological Seminary.Andrew Wymer is assistant professor of liturgical studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Summary
This book unmasks and destabilizes the white, colonial hegemony that continues to shape the field of homiletics today and explores alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.
