Questioning Our Faith in Practice: Unlearning White Supremacy in Practical Theology (Theology in Practice, 14)

Practical theology emerged as a discipline steeped in white supremacy, traces of which can be found in some of its most central practices and habits of mind. Identifying the remnants of this legacy allows practical theologians to begin to imagine how to proceed without reinscribing narratives of white saviors, unlimited progress, dominating control of bodies, and individual heroic leadership. You are invited to question this worldview while learning from scholars imagining a decolonized future.

Katherine Turpin, Ph.D., is Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO. She has published in youth ministry, religious education, and practical theology, including Branded (Pilgrim, 2006) and Nurturing Different Dreams (with Anne Carter Walker, Pickwick, 2014).