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Scholarship July 4, 2025

“Naming, Race, and White Supremacy in the Teaching of Religion and Islam: Incorporating Intersectional Interventions”

The Wabash Center

Author
Nguyen, Martin
Publisher
Teaching Theology and Religion 22, no. 4 (2019): 239-252
The need to confront issues of race and white supremacy in our teaching of religion is critically important, but through the pedagogical convention of naming, we take the first step in inviting our students to understand the hows and whys of it. I will explore the ways that Charles Long's theory of signification and counter‐signification can be pedagogically deployed to incorporate intersectional interventions in the teaching of religion in America, specifically in the case of an Islam in America course.