Gauntlet at the Lychgate: How and Why is the Church of England Racist?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Gauntlet at the Lychgate: How and Why is the Church of England Racist?

Published:2023-12-14 Issue:1 Volume:65 Page:10-21
ISSN:1353-1425
Container-title:Modern Believing
language:en
Short-container-title:Modern Believing

Author:

Perera Sanjee¹

Affiliation:

1. Dr Sanjee Perera is a cognitive ecclesiologist specialising in ethno-social identity and the psychological impact of racialised ecclesial contexts in the Church of England. She is the former Archbishops’ Advisor for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns and an Honorary Lay Canon at Liverpool Cathedral. She is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Durham, the University of Chester, Coventry University, Open University Law School and at William Temple Foundation.

Abstract

Recently, much has been said and written about racial justice in the Church, often at cross purposes, mired in ambiguous terms and incompatible frameworks. Racism remains just beyond a universally accepted model of the problem, tangled in a host of other historical, ideological, cultural, political and economic compulsions. In the Western Church this is exacerbated by the theologically rooted othering that is the legacy of our Church history, complicit in empire and slavery and mired in a culture shaped by a hermeneutic of ethnoracial hierarchy. This summary article considers this particular structural drive and introduces the broad theological and ecclesiological legacy of systemic racism in the Western Church, narrating the theologised virtue aesthetics which form a backdrop to institutional racism in the Church of England.

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Subject

General Medicine

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