TY - BOOK AU - Jun,Alexander AU - Jones Jolivet,Tabatha L. AU - Ash,Allison N. AU - Collins,Christopher S. TI - White Jesus: the architecture of racism in religion and education SN - 9781433157691 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BT205 .J86 2018 U1 - 270.089 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Jesus Christ KW - Race awareness KW - Race relations KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Racism KW - Whites KW - Race identity KW - Christian education N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus-a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation-that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. White Jesus was constructed by combining empire, colorism, racism, education, and religion; the by-product is a distortion that reproduces violence in epistemic and physical ways. The authors distinguish White Jesus from Jesus of the Gospels, the one whose life, death, and resurrection demands sacrificial love ER -