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REST 102 Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discourse | the controlling metaphors, notions, and categories that produce the conditions of “the true,” “the good,”” and the “beautiful”, Cornell West |
| Double Consciousness | to have two different mentalities, ex: black viewpoint but living in America, W.E.B. DuBois |
| God is Black | Argument by Black Jews, saying God is black to more |
| Orthopraxis | correct conduct-more rituals rather than grace,works |
| Cartesian philosophy | places thinking subject as foundation of knowledge, task of philosophy is to represent the world, Rene Decartes |
| Phrenology | reading of skulls, used as scientific evidence to justify racism |
| Physiognomy | reading of faces, used to justify racism |
| Natural History | order things based on visible characteristics, White supremacy emerges in descriptive order imposing aims on natural history, focuses on RACE |
| Theology | study of people group's understanding of God (or lack thereof) |
| Indirect Murder | fact exposing someone to death, political death, expulsion, rejection, Foucault |
| Biopolitics | anything that affects the population as a whole, ex: birth and death rates |
| Liberative theologies | all religious theologies, |
| Liberation theologies | Christian theology, tradition is key |
| Space based worldview | thinking more in terms of land and how it is affected, American Indian view, different from Europeans |
| Classical revival | thinkers moved to looking at the artistic and cultural heritage of Greeks, ex: Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Bach, etc. |
| Scientific revolution | authority of science OVER authority of the bible |
| Cartesian transformation | one of West's 3 developments, result of the influence of Rene Decartes, in order to arrive at truth have to eliminate anything that can be doubted, effect of |
| Black Codes | after freedom of slaves, codes meant to limit freedom and compel them |
| Jim Crow | "separate but equal" laws->usually southeran states |
| God of the Oppressed | prominent in AA Judaism, God is for the people of the oppressed, church is for God's suffering people |
| Social Movements | movements that have affected religion over the years |
| Oscar Romero | South American bishop who was assassinated, advocated for equal rights |
| James Cone | ordained minister in African American church, founder of black liberation theory |
| Vine Deloria | American Indian writer, Thinking In Time and Space, spiritual ownership of the land vs "actual" owner of land |
| W.E.B. Dubois | founder of the NAACP, founder of Double Consciousness theory |
| Michael Foucault | Racism and Power of Death, biopower->forcing black people into slums, not good enough medical care |
| George Tinker | American Indian writer, American Indian Theology Ideas: Indians became Christians in time of despair and space based wordview |
| Rene Descartes | philosopher, religion as basis of truth->science to basis of truth |
| Cornell West | A Geneology of Racism, big 3-Classical Revival, Cartesian transformation, Scientific Revolution start of racism |
| Father Divine | African American preacher, International Peace Mission movement |