02457oam 22004334a 450 991014871860332120220218231833.01-5064-0889-3(CKB)3710000000916285(MiAaPQ)EBC4729494(OCoLC)961457451(MdBmJHUP)muse54491(EXLCZ)99371000000091628520161101e20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Death of Race Building a New Christianity in a Racial World /Brian BantumMinneapolis, Minnesota :Fortress Press,2016.©20161 online resource (180 pages)1-5064-0888-5 Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Race is a story written on my body -- 2. Bodies matter -- 3. Naked and ashamed -- 4. This is my body, born for you -- 5. Jesus walks -- 6. Jesus makes us free to become like Mary -- 7. Race must die -- 8. There is life in the tomb -- Epilogue.Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact. Much like the incarnation, it is a "word made flesh," the confluence of various powers that allow some to organize and dominate the lives of others. In this way racism is a deeply theological problem, one that is central to the Christian story and one that plays out daily in the United States and throughout the world. In The Death of Race, Bantum argues that our attempts to heal racism will not succeed until we address what gives rise to racism in the first place: a fallen understanding of our bodies that sees difference as something to resist, defeat, or subdue. Therefore, he examines the question of race, but through the lens of our bodies and what our bodies mean in the midst of a complicated, racialized world, one that perpetually dehumanizes dark bodies, thereby rendering all of us less than God's intention.RacismReligious aspectsChristianityRaceReligious aspectsChristianityRacismReligious aspectsChristianity.RaceReligious aspectsChristianity.270.089Bantum Brian1975-1082311MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910148718603321The Death of Race2597452UNINA