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Naming, race, and white supremacy in the teaching of religion and Islam: Incorporating intersectional interventions
Author(s) -
Nguyen Martin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/teth.12501
Subject(s) - white supremacy , islam , critical race theory , race (biology) , psychological intervention , sociology , white (mutation) , gender studies , convention , epistemology , psychology , social science , philosophy , theology , biochemistry , chemistry , psychiatry , gene
The need to confront issues of race and white supremacy in our teaching of religion is critically important, but through the pedagogical convention of naming, we take the first step in inviting our students to understand the hows and whys of it. I will explore the ways that Charles Long's theory of signification and counter‐signification can be pedagogically deployed to incorporate intersectional interventions in the teaching of religion in America, specifically in the case of an Islam in America course.