Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness

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Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness is written by Christopher M. Baker and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030993434 (ISBN 10) and 9783030993436 (ISBN 13).

This book argues that “race” and “whiteness” are central to the construction of the modern world. Constructive Theology needs to take them seriously as primary theological problems. In doing so, Constructive Theology must fundamentally change its approach, and draw from the emerging field of Philosophy of Race. Christopher M. Baker develops a genealogy of race that understands “whiteness” as a kind secular soteriology, and develops a counternarrative theological method informed by resources from Philosophy of Race. He then deploys that method to read science fiction cinema and superhero stories as cultural, racial, and theological documents that can be critically engaged and redeployed as counternarratives to dominant racial narratives.