White Theology Outing Supremacy in Modernity [Paperback]

White Theology re-examines white race privilege throughout history and its relationship to black theology. James W. Perkinson articulates a white theology of responsibility responding to the claims of James Cone (and other black scholars) that serious engagement with history and culture must be at the heart of any American projection of integrity or salvation in the modern period. Perkinson interweaves autobiography and postcolonial analysis, history, and phenomenology to explore white supremacy and the future of religious studies. This is an essential and groundbreaking book for courses in religious studies, African American studies, and theology.White Theology re-examines white race privilege throughout history and its relationship to black theology. James W. Perkinson articulates a white theology of responsibility responding to the claims of James Cone (and other black scholars) that serious engagement with history and culture must be at the heart of any American projection of integrity or salvation in the modern period. Perkinson interweaves autobiography and postcolonial analysis, history, and phenomenology to explore white supremacy and the future of religious studies. This is an essential and groundbreaking book for courses in religious studies, African American studies, and theology.White Privilege and Black Power * White Boy in the Ghetto * The Crisis of Race in the New Millennium * History, Consciousness, and Performance * Modern White Supremacy and Western Christian Soteriology * Black Double Consciousness and White Double Takes * Black Performance * Presumption, Initiation, and Practice * White Posture * White Irony and Black Grotesquery * Anti-Supremacist Solidarity and Post-White Practice *

Perkinson does what no white theologian has done, namely offer a full-length treatment of white racism that is politically informed and theologically constructive. - Mark Taylor, Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary