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The Installation Of The Human: Whiteness, Religion, And Racial Capitalism, Benjamin Robinson
The Installation Of The Human: Whiteness, Religion, And Racial Capitalism, Benjamin Robinson
Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations
Over the past thirty to forty years, the academic study of religion has brought the category of religion into crisis, unveiling its Christian architecture and its formation as a settler-colonial category of European expansion. While the proliferation of research on the genealogy of religion has opened new and important vantages for study, we remain conflicted about what is at stake. In this dissertation, I argue that the modern-colonial construction of religion is organized by a racial-theological operation that categorically separates people into humans, subhumans, and nonhumans, by which the social, economic, and political inequalities of racial capitalism have been made …
Opening Your Door And Dinner Table As Evangelism, Gary Alan Fox
Opening Your Door And Dinner Table As Evangelism, Gary Alan Fox
Doctor of Ministry Projects and Theses
With the decline of membership in most mainline denominational churches, can people with no religious affiliation, or who have left the church, or who want nothing to do with the church, enter into a relationship with God through community in small neighborhood groups meeting in homes? The problem for most mainline churches is that small groups are viewed as only being for short term Bible Study or information gathering. Yet, a life transforming encounter with God often happens through long-term small groups that are focused on relationship building and life stage support as the primary focus. It is in community …