Jesus and the Disinherited

Davies, Paul E.; Thurman, Howard

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“…It seemed to me that Luciferians were rejecting something that they perceived to be rejecting them and that this rejection was an empowering (but not unproblematic) affective force in a disempowering local world (see Blankenship 2023). I also saw the spirit of Luciferianism in the classroom at the STM where what mattered was an inclusive spirituality that could help one experience transformative presences that might help render a more livable and lovable world for those who, as Thurman (1996) put it, lived with their "backs against the wall. "…”

Section: Living Local More-than-human Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Beautiful Death

Blankenship‐Lai

2024

Teaching Theology & Religion

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This article is about the death of a graduate school for spiritual formation and theological education. I ask what the death of this school can teach us about teaching theology and religion for the sake of student transformation and more loving pedagogies. I also ask how, when an institution dies, it can die beautifully. The underlying thesis of this article is that there is, alive in our classrooms (and ourselves, perhaps), a spiritual wound that can be named an experiential death of divine love—and that this wound is manifesting as unshepherded fear, rage, and discontent. I suggest that this spiritual wound be tended through skillful pedagogical tenderness, flexibility, and liberative co‐creation with students to cultivate a presence of love and feed the spiritual hungers of our time. I also suggest that a school (and a teacher) dies beautifully when its death is allowed and free to become a scene of beautiful instruction.

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Section: Living Local More-than-human Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Beautiful Death

Blankenship‐Lai

2024

Teaching Theology & Religion

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“…Within the Christian tradition, specifically, the call for faith to motivate acts of justice and mercy resonates throughout the Bible and has been widely articulated by prominent theologians and thought leaders (Braud, 1969;Gauer, 2005;Leong, 2017;S. Perkins & Rice, 1993;Salter McNeil, 2016;Salter McNeil & Richardson, 2009;Stout, 2010;Thurman, 1976). Empirical investigations also attest to the relationship between religious values and social justice outcomes (Torres-Harding et al, 2013).…”

Section: Religiosity and Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Faith in Action? Exploring the Relationship between Public and Private Religiosity, Race, and Social Justice among Christian College Students

Funabashi

2023

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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Awareness of social justice issues and their perceived importance varies significantly across many demographic variables including racial and religious identities. Less is known, however, about how the centrality of one’s own religiosity is associated with social justice attitudes and actions. This study explored the relationship between dimensions of religiosity and social justice importance and actions for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and non-Hispanic White students. Christian college students ( N = 168) completed measures of public and private religiosity, the perceived connection between faith and social justice, as well as personal attitudes and actions pertaining to issues of social justice. The results demonstrated positive associations between religiosity and the extent to which faith was believed to inform social justice attitudes for BIPOC and White students. Despite the perception that religiosity informed one’s social justice attitudes and actions, religiosity was only positively associated with actual social justice engagement for BIPOC students. Furthermore, multiple regression analyses demonstrated that public religiosity was the best predictor of beliefs that one’s religion motivated activities related to social justice work, but private religiosity was the strongest predictor of actual social justice engagement. These findings underscore a prominent disconnect in the extent to which religiosity is believed to be, and is actually, associated with social justice attitudes and actions.

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“…Thurman's first and most influential book, Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), became popular during the civil rights movement (Dorrien, 2018). In this book, Thurman discussed Jesus' identity as a poor man ministering among masses of poor people (Thurman, 1949(Thurman, /1996. The social gospel traditions influenced subsequent social movements, such as the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the Reading the Bible with the Poor methodology.…”

Section: Social Gospel Movementmentioning

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Historic and Contemporary Influences on Reading the Bible with the Poor: Liberation Theology and Poor People's Movements

Williams,

Biniecki

2021

Dialogues in Social Justice

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Reading the Bible with the Poor is a methodology of biblical study rooted in liberation theology and hermeneutics. Leaders within the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are utilizing this methodology as a tool for organizing the movement to end poverty. This paper will explore the literature of the Reading the Bible with the Poor methodology with emphasis on the influences from contextual biblical study and liberation theology, especially in South Africa and Latin America, as well as social movements of the poor and dispossessed in the United States. Additionally, the paper will include reflections from one author, who is a practitioner of this methodology of biblical reading, on its use as an emancipatory adult education program within the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The analysis and reflections can inform other adult education movements rooted in struggles for liberation and revolutionary critical pedagogy.

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Jesus and the Disinherited

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A Beautiful Death

A Beautiful Death

Faith in Action? Exploring the Relationship between Public and Private Religiosity, Race, and Social Justice among Christian College Students

Historic and Contemporary Influences on Reading the Bible with the Poor: Liberation Theology and Poor People's Movements

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