DOI
10.32436/2475-6423.1084
Abstract
Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly tethered to the “official” Catholic Church and the language of propositional theology it speaks in and critically consider the unobserved racialized dimensions of such a conception.
Recommended Citation
Brecht, Mara
(2021)
"A Widened Angle of View: Teaching Theology and Racial Embodiment,"
Journal of Global Catholicism:
Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 2. p.20-29.
DOI: 10.32436/2475-6423.1084
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https://crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol5/iss1/2
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