A Widened Angle of View: Teaching Theology and Racial Embodiment

Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through convenience a screen. The ostensible comfort have with difference gives way paradox, one that’s made especially apparent in theology classroom: Students comfortable seeing particularity at distance, but not adept locating “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help from dominant culture—namely, white who comprise vast majority Catholic college students—destabilize their notion tradition as tightly tethered “official” Church language propositional it speaks critically consider unobserved racialized dimensions such conception.