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Religious diversity, cultural pluralism, and interreligious encounter are widely viewed in modern life as socially-and for many people of faith, spiritually-enriching. One of the most significant but frequently overlooked benefits of interreligious encounter is that it empowers us to see ourselves, and particularly our racialized identities, in new and revealing ways. In The Habits of Race and Faith in a Religiously Diverse World, Mara Brecht places whiteness under particular scrutiny-its tangled and entwined relationship with religious identity, as well as strategic associations with dominance and privilege. The analysis of whiteness gives way to fresh perspectives on Christian ideas about salvation, both in connection to religious faith and racial embodiment.
List of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Privileged Stories
Part I: Interreligious Encounter and Ways of Being Human
Chapter 1: Reflections on Encounter
Chapter 2: The Habits of Being Human
Chapter 3: Encountering "Race" and "Religion"
Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Race and Religion
Part II: A Deep Dive into Whiteness
Chapter 5: On Whiteness
Chapter 6: Whiteness within the "Space" of Christianity
Chapter 7: Privileged Habits
Chapter 8: The Habits of Bodying as White
Chapter 9: The Theologic of Whiteness
Part III: Theologies of Interreligious Encounter
Chapter 10: Universalist Theologies-A Priority for Religion over Race
Chapter 11: Liberationist Theologies-A Priority for "Race" over Religion
Chapter 12: Soteriological Privilege
Chapter 13 An Irresolution: Encountering Privilege, Privileged Encounters
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Mara Brecht is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Norbert College in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
