Religious Studies and Philosophy

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Bausell, S. B., Staton, T. A., & Hughes, S. (2020).听.听American Educational Research Journal, 57(4), 1730鈥1756. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219883871

  • The authors document collective memories of the founding, curriculum, and attendees of one of the first (1866) Reconstruction Era Quaker-Freedmen School sites in the Southeastern U.S. They apply Whiteness as property to interpret their data. This study demonstrates how 鈥淲hiteness as property remains across generations and contexts.鈥

Brettschneider, M. (2015).听.听The Journal of Religion, 95(1), 107鈥120. https://doi.org/10.1086/678537

  • The author reviews previous works and 鈥渢he state of the field from the perspective of critical race studies, and in particular Jewish critical race studies, an important theoretical approach in religious studies.鈥 In religious studies, CRT looks at 鈥渨ho 鈥榳ins鈥 and who 鈥榣oses鈥 as ideas, practices, and institutions are built and morph; what the costs are; and to whom and in what ways.鈥 In Jewish critical race theory, 鈥渕atters of Jewish import are privileged in analyses.鈥

Conradie, M. S. (2016).听.听Acta Theologica, 36(1), 5鈥26. https://doi.org/10.4314/actat.v36i1.2

  • This study 鈥渟eeks to combine research from CRT, as applied to post-1994 South Africa, with insights from practical theology.鈥 It looks into 鈥減oints of agreement between these perspectives, especially the call to critically appraise ideologies that deny or obscure the present-day consequences of racism.鈥

Fears, B. A. (2021).听.听Religions, 12(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12010035

  • Employing the framework of Disability Studies and CRT (Dis/Crit), the author analyzes theological education to address what has been identified as racial paterfamilias in the institution, which may explain their colonial/capitalist response to COVID-19.

Gerteis, J., Hartmann, D., & Edgell, P. (2020).听.听Social Problems, 67(4), 719鈥740. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz039

  • This paper examines anti-Muslim sentiment in America. Their findings show that 鈥渘early half of Americans embrace some form of anti-Muslim sentiment, and that such views are systematically correlated with social location and with understandings of the nature of American belonging.鈥 Building from recent work in CRT and the study of cultural boundaries in national belonging, the authors argue that 鈥淢uslims are distinct in being culturally excluded on religious, racial, and civic grounds at the same time.鈥

Hafez, F. (2018).听.听Islamophobia Studies Journal, 4(2), 210鈥225. https://doi.org/10.13169/islastudj.4.2.0210

  • This article 鈥渄iscusses the different prominent approaches to the concepts of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism that can be found in academic literature.鈥 Three schools of thought can be identified in Islamophobia studies. 鈥淭he first conducts research on Islamophobia in the context of prejudice studies, the second is informed by racism studies and draws on the postcolonial tradition, and the third contributes to the second through the addition of a decolonial perspective.鈥

Heschel, S. (2015).听.听Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 35(1), 3鈥27. https://doi.org/10.1353/sce.2015.0018

  • Drawing from recent methodological innovations in the study of racism, this essay 鈥渆xplores the appeal of racism and the erotics of race within the imagination.鈥 The 鈥渟lippery nature of racism, and its ability to alter its manifestations with ease and hide behind various disavowals, facilitates the racialization of both religious thought and social institution.鈥

Jones, R. A. (2009). Philosophical methodologies of critical race theory.听Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, 1(1), 17鈥40.

  • In this paper, Jones discusses (1) how Black philosophers employ CRT to deconstruct their own racialized marginalization; (2) how postmodern philosophical methodologies are deployed by philosophers in CRT discourse by analyzing the genealogical method, which is one of the philosophical currents that CRT draws from; and (3) how CRT provides the structure for a transformative philosophical discourse for assuaging racialized, genderized, politicized, and nationalistic inequities.

Small, E. (2020).听.听Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 17(2), 184鈥208. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766086.2019.1697727

  • Using CRT, this article presents findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological study to explore the leadership experiences of five African-American men in senior-level positions in predominately White organizations (PWO) in the U.S. Findings show that African-American spirituality provided the self-determination and resiliency to combat racially insensitive micro-aggressions in a PWO.

Tranby, E., & Hartmann, D. (2008).听听Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47(3), 341鈥359. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2008.00414.x

  • In Divided by Faith (2000), Emerson and Smith use 鈥渢he case of evangelical Christians to demonstrate how uncompromising individualist ideals get in the way of clear thinking and decisive action about racial inequalities in contemporary American society.鈥 This article uses insights developed from Whiteness studies and CRT to sharpen and extend this analysis. The authors also present data from a recent national survey of race and religion in American life to support their revisionist claims.

Zockoll, B. M., Jr. (2019).听.听Journal of Research on Christian Education, 28(2), 151鈥177. https://doi.org/10.1080/10656219.2019.1631236

  • This qualitative study explores 鈥減erceptions of leadership within the Maryland Association of Christian Schools (MACS) concerning the lack of Black administrators.鈥 Findings show that 鈥淢ACS member schools prioritize the mission and draw leadership applicants from an almost entirely monochromatic applicant pool. Most MACS school leaders claimed an acceptance of colorblindness yet saw the need to develop cultural awareness.鈥