Deliver Us from Evil

Poling, James Newton

Deliver Us from Evil Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression - Philadelphia Fortress Press 1996 - 220p

includes index and biblioraphy

PART ONE: RESISTING RACIAL AND GENDER OPPRESSION
1. Race, Gender, and White Supremacy: The Case of Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs` Resistance
The Nature of White Supremacy
Debate and Betrayal
Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Rush
2. Women and Male Dominance: The Case of Freud and Dora
Dora`s Resistance
The Nature of Male Dominance
Why Study Freud?
Interpretations of Freud
Dora as a Frigid Hysteric
Dora as a Feminist Hero
Dora as Freud`s Fantasy
Freud`s Betrayal of Dora
Freud and Male Violence
Freud and Women`s Agency
3. The Revolution Betrayed: How Freedom Was Suppressed During the Colonial Period
Racial Oppression during the Colonial Period
Gender Oppression during the Colonial Period Between the Wars
The Economic and Institutional Context
African American Resistance Communities
Women`s Resistance Communities
Debate and Betrayal
4. Emancipation for Whom? How Racism and Sexism Survived
Reconstruction 63
Economic and Institutional Setting
The Resistance Communities
Debate and Betrayal
The Debate about Race The Debate about Gender
5. Contemporary Resistance and Betrayal 84
Black Male Theology
White Feminist Theology
Black Womanist Theology
Resistance, Backlash, and Betrayal
The White Debate about the Black Family
Debates about Sexual Abuse
PART TWO: RESISTING EVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS
6. Understanding Resistance to Evil 103
The Dynamic of Resistance and Evil
The Nature of Resistance
Personal Reflections
7. Defining Evil 110
The Hiddenness of Evil
Genuine Evil

Evil as Abuse of Power That Destroys Bodies and Spirits The Structure of Evil
Personal Evil
Social Evil
Religious Evil
8. Re-imagining Jesus`Resistance to Evil 136
Issues of Christology in the Communities of Resistance
Questions and Confessions from Womanist Theologians Questions and Confessions from Feminist Theologians
Race and Gender as Aspects of Hermeneutical Method A Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Confession
9. Jesus as Religious Resister 156
Jesus as Religious Resister
Jesus` Disclosure of the Multiplicity and Ambiguity of God and Humans African American Women European American Women European American Men God and Christ as One and Multiple God and Christ as Perfect and Ambiguous A New Image of Jesus A Christology to Inspire Worship
Postscript: Practicing Goodness 175
1. Develop a spirituality of resistance
2. Live in solidarity with resistance communities
3. Take moral and material inventory
4. Confront the abuser within
5. Confront other persons of power
6. Negotiate with institutions


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