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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783833403321

Autore

Kelley Shawn <1961, >

Titolo

Racializing Jesus : race, ideology and the formation of modern biblical scholarship / / Shawn Kelley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-73552-9

1-134-73553-7

1-280-10739-1

0-203-99420-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Biblical limits

Disciplina

220.6/09

Soggetti

Racism - Religious aspects - Christianity - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 Racialized discourse: modernity, race, and reason; 2 The Hegelian synthesis; 3 Jesus and the myth of the West; 4 Aesthetic fascism; 5 In the shadow of Heidegger; 6 Portrait of the artist as a young messiah; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship.Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student and scholar of biblical studies awareness of the subtle ways in which racial thinking ha