White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons From Mystics

Authors

Mary E. Hess, Luther SeminaryFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-29-2016

Abstract

Decades of work in dismantling racism have not yielded the kind of results for which religious educators have hoped. One primary reason has been what scholars term “white fragility,” a symptom of the structural racism which confers systemic privilege upon White people. Lessons learned from Christian mystics point to powerful ways to confront and resist the siren call of such formation and instead to make resisting racism an integral part of Christian identity for White people.

Publication Title

Religious Education

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Volume

112

Issue

1

First Page

46

Last Page

57

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2016.1253124

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Religious Education on 29 December 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2016.1253124

Published Citation

Hess, Mary E. “White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons from Mystics.” Religious Education 112, no. 1 (January 2017): 46–57. doi:10.1080/00344087.2016.1253124.

Recommended Citation

Hess, Mary E., "White Religious Educators Resisting White Fragility: Lessons From Mystics" (2016). Faculty Publications. 25.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/faculty_articles/25