Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness : Studies in Philosophy of Race, Science Fiction Cinema, and Superhero Stories (Radical Theologies and Philosophies)

Baker, Christopher M.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2023/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 商品コード 9783030993450

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Constructive Theology and Philosophy of Race, Part I.- 3. Constructive Theology and Philosophy of Race, Part II.- 4. Race, Whiteness, and Science Fiction Cinema.- 5. Race, Whiteness, and Superhero Stories.- 6. Conclusion.