Can White People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission

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Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Preface Introduction: Race and Missiology in Glocal Perspective The Interdependent Nature of Race and Missions Studying Racism and Race in Missiological Context Race and Missions in Glocal Perspective Part I: Race and Place at the Dawn of Modernity 1 Can White People Be Saved?: Reflections on the Relationship of Missions and Whiteness Whiteness as a Formation Toward Maturity The Feeling of Whiteness Forming a Place to Be 2 Decolonizing Salvation Indigenous Colonization and Christian Missionization Evangelicals/Pentecostals and Christian Colonization Native Theologies Native Evangelicals and Decolonization Decolonization and Salvation Beyond the White Savior Industrial Complex Part II: Race and the Colonial Enterprise 3 Christian Debates on Race, Theology, and Mission in India Introduction Tamil Understandings of Caste as Race Jesuit Experiences with the Tamil Peoples of Various Castes Lutheran Experiences with the Tamil Peoples of Various Castes Lutheran and Anglican Debates About Caste Among the Tamil Christians Issues of Caste Among the Tamil Christians After the Nineteenth Century Conclusion 4 Ambivalent Modalities: Mission, Race, and the African Factor Introduction: Reviewing the Lay of the Land Engaging and Encountering the Crucible of Mission and Race Mission and Race in Context: The Story of Ajayi Crowther “Missionaries Go Home”: Unmasking the Moratorium Debate Toward an Ubuntu Kenosis Missiology Conclusion: Mission, Not Manipulation Part III: Race and Mission to Latin America 5 Siempre Lo Mismo: Theology, Rhetoric, and Broken Praxis The Church and Its Mission: Chabiendas Recurrentes—Siempre Lo Mismo Racism as Sin: An Evangelical Theological Perspective Racism, Colonialism, and Mission The Disciples of Christ in Texas The Origin of Christian Missions in Latin America Theology, Spirituality, and Perspective Transformation Misión Integral: A Theology for Renewed Relationship 6 Constructing Race in Puerto Rico: The Colonial Legacy of Christianity and Empires, 1510–1910 Purity-of-Blood Laws in Spain The Transformation of the Purity-of-Blood Statutes in Early Colonial Puerto Rico A New Empire, a New Religion, and a New Understanding of Race Mestizaje and Mulatez in Latinx Theology Conclusion: Key Missiological Implications Part IV: Race in North America Between and Beyond Black-and-White 7 The End of “Mission”: Christian Witness and the Decentering of White Identity Introduction Repentance for Complicity in Systemic Sin Learning from Non-White Theological and Cultural Resources Locating Our Lives in Places and Structures Not Our Own Tangible Submission to Non-White Ecclesial Leadership Hearing and Speaking the Glory of God in Unfamiliar Cadences 8 Community, Mission, and Race: A Missiological Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community for Racial Relationships and Identity Politics The Beloved Community The Communal-Political Nature of Christian Mission Racism Desegregation and Integration Nonviolence The Civil Rights Movement Implications Conclusion 9 “The Spirit of God Was Hovering over the Waters”: Pressing Past Racialization in the Decolonial Missionary Context; or, Why Asian American Christians Should Give Up Their Spots at Harvard Three Kinds of Postracialism The Harvard Case Between Decolonial Pasts and Missionary Futures Giving Up Harvard Part V: Scriptural Reconsiderations and Ethnoracial Hermeneutics 10 Intercultural Communication Skills for a Missiology of Interdependent Mutuality Introduction A Racialized Society Race as a Construct in Cultural Anthropology Biblical Anthropology Race Relations as a Reading of Acts 10–11; 15 The Image-IQ Inventory: Developing Intercultural Communication Skills Relationship with God 11 “Humbled Among the Nations”: Matthew 15:21-28 in Antiracist Womanist Missiological Engagement Introduction Pro-Gentile Versus Anti-Gentile Rhetoric, or “Is the Gospel of Matthew Racist?” Matthew 15:21-28 as Resistance Literature Conclusion Conclusion: Mission After Colonialism and Whiteness: The Pentecost Witness of the “Perpetual Foreigner” for the Third Millennium Modern Christian Mission: Gospel-Heresy-Colonialism The End of (Colorblind) Theology and the End of (Modern) Mission A “Perpetual Foreigner” Witness: Pentecost and Mission for the Twenty-First Century Epilogue A Letter from the Archdemon of Racialization to Her Angels in the United States: How Whiteness Secures Our Success in Overcoming the Enemy List of Contributors Notes Introduction: Race and Missiology in Glocal Perspective 1 Can White People Be Saved? Reflections on the Relationship of Missions and Whiteness 2 Decolonizing Salvation 3 Christian Debates on Race, Theology, and Mission in India 4 Ambivalent Modalities: Mission, Race, and the African Factor 5 Siempre Lo Mismo: Theology, Rhetoric, and Broken Praxis 6 Constructing Race in Puerto Rico: The Colonial Legacy of Christianity and Empires, 1510–1910 7 The End of “Mission”: Christian Witness and the Decentering of White Identity 8 Community, Mission, and Race: A Missiological Meaning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community for Racial Relationships and Identity Politics 9 “The Spirit of God Was Hovering over the Waters”: Pressing Past Racialization in the Decolonial Missionary Context; or, Why Asian American Christians Should Give Up Their Spots at Harvard 10 Intercultural Communication Skills for a Missiology of Interdependent Mutuality 11 “Humbled Among the Nations”: Matthew 15:21-28 in Antiracist Womanist Missiological Engagement Conclusion: Mission After Colonialism and Whiteness: The Pentecost Witness of the “Perpetual Foreigner” for the Third Millennium Epilogue: A Letter from the Archdemon of Racialization to Her Angels in the United States Subject Index Scripture Index Praise for Can “White” People be Saved? 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