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Papers by Dan Hauge

The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions, 2019

This dissertation develops a liberationist practical theology of white emotioned resistance to cr... more This dissertation develops a liberationist practical theology of white emotioned resistance to critical anti-racist education. Its central argument is that white resistant discourse and emotional reactions in response to anti-racist pedagogy reflect the influence of social location on white people's psychological development, which forms comfortable intuitive attachments to the white hegemonic social milieu. These attachments constitute psychic incentives to preserve that milieu, which operate alongside conscious anti-racist commitments, resulting in disorientation and distress when the contradictions between those motivations are exposed in anti-racist classroom settings. This psychodynamic analysis serves as the basis for examining the theological implications of white resistance and, by extension, white social formation, which devalues mutual encounter across difference and constrains white people's ability to conceptualize shared culpability in generating oppressive soci...

New England Journal of Relational and Systemic Practice, Feb 11, 2021

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology, 2017

Recent decades have seen an increased interest among predominantly white, middle-class evangelica... more Recent decades have seen an increased interest among predominantly white, middle-class evangelicals in church planting and organizing ministries in urban centers, often in racially diverse neighborhoods undergoing the process of gentrification. This thesis will analyze the phenomenon of white urban ministry through the lens of critical whiteness studies and psychoanalytic theory, drawing on Shannon Sullivan’s notion of whiteness as unconscious habit characterized by ontological expansiveness. I propose that sincere efforts on the part of white urban ministry practitioners to form and nurture diverse communities rooted in place are impeded by habitual modes of relationship to place formed in predominantly white contexts, which reproduce, however unintentionally, patterns of white supremacy and displacement of people of color. The thesis begins with a survey of print and online sources including accounts by white urban ministry practitioners and critiques of their models. I then addre...

Journal of Pastoral Theology, 2017

In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-e... more In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, "Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress." In it, she confronted the popular condemnation of protests and particular incidents of looting with the broader reality of systemic white suppression of black social and economic progress. Focusing upon the anger expressed by protestors obfuscates how oppressive social policies are also manifestations of ragethat of white people. Such policies evade identification as rage due to their more suffusive nature and the social and political power that bolsters and legitimates them. White rage "doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislators and governors, who cast its efforts as noble."  In White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Anderson develops the thesis of her op-ed through a historical survey of concentrated political and legal efforts to reverse or minimize black American gains in the struggle toward equity. Synthesizing a range of historical research on successive eras of US history, Anderson leads the reader with efficiency and clarity from the Reconstruction period, through the Great Migration, Brown v. Board of Education and Jim Crow, the "war on drugs" and mass incarceration, up to contemporary voter suppression efforts in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. Thoroughly documented while remaining accessible to those outside the academy, White Rage provides a necessary corrective to popular narratives of sustained US progress in the realm of racial justice, while also serving as a primer on the nature of structural racism itself. Additionallyand crucially for the current political context-Anderson highlights recurring rhetorical strategies employed by white people to minimize the nature and effects of racial oppression and legitimize white discomfort at the "overreach" of progress toward equality and thus justify regressive policies. By documenting the policies and court decisions designed to preserve white supremacy in the face of progress, as well as the consistent rhetorical moves used to defend such practices, White Rage places the most recent iterations of white backlash within a clarifying historical context. It thus serves as a valuable resource for justice-minded communities strategizing how to best advance the struggle for equity. Anderson begins with an account of "Reconstructing Reconstruction," explaining how the early promise of full recognition of African-American citizenship in the wake of the Civil War was betrayed in favor of an overriding concern for reintegrating Confederate states into the Union. After noting Lincoln's lack of clarity and resolve regarding the cause of the war and the need to prioritize equality for formerly enslaved people, Anderson turns her attention to the actions of President Andrew Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders, rescind the Freedmen's Bureau order

Journal of Pastoral Theology, 2017

In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-e... more In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, "Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress." In it, she confronted the popular condemnation of protests and particular incidents of looting with the broader reality of systemic white suppression of black social and economic progress. Focusing upon the anger expressed by protestors obfuscates how oppressive social policies are also manifestations of ragethat of white people. Such policies evade identification as rage due to their more suffusive nature and the social and political power that bolsters and legitimates them. White rage "doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislators and governors, who cast its efforts as noble."  In White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Anderson develops the thesis of her op-ed through a historical survey of concentrated political and legal efforts to reverse or minimize black American gains in the struggle toward equity. Synthesizing a range of historical research on successive eras of US history, Anderson leads the reader with efficiency and clarity from the Reconstruction period, through the Great Migration, Brown v. Board of Education and Jim Crow, the "war on drugs" and mass incarceration, up to contemporary voter suppression efforts in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. Thoroughly documented while remaining accessible to those outside the academy, White Rage provides a necessary corrective to popular narratives of sustained US progress in the realm of racial justice, while also serving as a primer on the nature of structural racism itself. Additionallyand crucially for the current political context-Anderson highlights recurring rhetorical strategies employed by white people to minimize the nature and effects of racial oppression and legitimize white discomfort at the "overreach" of progress toward equality and thus justify regressive policies. By documenting the policies and court decisions designed to preserve white supremacy in the face of progress, as well as the consistent rhetorical moves used to defend such practices, White Rage places the most recent iterations of white backlash within a clarifying historical context. It thus serves as a valuable resource for justice-minded communities strategizing how to best advance the struggle for equity. Anderson begins with an account of "Reconstructing Reconstruction," explaining how the early promise of full recognition of African-American citizenship in the wake of the Civil War was betrayed in favor of an overriding concern for reintegrating Confederate states into the Union. After noting Lincoln's lack of clarity and resolve regarding the cause of the war and the need to prioritize equality for formerly enslaved people, Anderson turns her attention to the actions of President Andrew Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders, rescind the Freedmen's Bureau order

Religious Education, 2019

This paper explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional cultu... more This paper explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional culture and classroom dynamics. The presumption of comfort and security in established social norms enacts an embodied commitment to white supremacy that operates concurrently with conscious, articulated desires to pursue equity, as it delimits how white people imagine what authentically equitable institutions might look and feel like. The paper draws upon theological uses of phenomenology and developmental psychology to describe how the white self develops within a hegemonic social milieu, and how an embodied sense of agency and comfort within unjust social structures facilitates white normativity.

Post-Traumatic Public Theology, 2016

Recent public attention on police violence perpetrated on black people and the response of protes... more Recent public attention on police violence perpetrated on black people and the response of protest movements illustrate the nature of structural racism as ongoing cultural trauma—a form of physical and psychic assault on the humanity of people of color. Efforts of dominant white cultural institutions to address racism are generally compromised by a distorted narrative frame which obfuscates the pervasive systemic nature of white supremacy and the extent of the trauma experienced. This essay surveys psychological research on the traumatic effects of racism and highlights the contributions of black theologians who challenge popular Christian narratives of “racial reconciliation,” for failing to address white complicity in the deeply embedded, trauma-generating nature of structural racism in the social and cultural order.

The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions, 2019

This dissertation develops a liberationist practical theology of white emotioned resistance to cr... more This dissertation develops a liberationist practical theology of white emotioned resistance to critical anti-racist education. Its central argument is that white resistant discourse and emotional reactions in response to anti-racist pedagogy reflect the influence of social location on white people's psychological development, which forms comfortable intuitive attachments to the white hegemonic social milieu. These attachments constitute psychic incentives to preserve that milieu, which operate alongside conscious anti-racist commitments, resulting in disorientation and distress when the contradictions between those motivations are exposed in anti-racist classroom settings. This psychodynamic analysis serves as the basis for examining the theological implications of white resistance and, by extension, white social formation, which devalues mutual encounter across difference and constrains white people's ability to conceptualize shared culpability in generating oppressive soci...

New England Journal of Relational and Systemic Practice, Feb 11, 2021

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology, 2017

Recent decades have seen an increased interest among predominantly white, middle-class evangelica... more Recent decades have seen an increased interest among predominantly white, middle-class evangelicals in church planting and organizing ministries in urban centers, often in racially diverse neighborhoods undergoing the process of gentrification. This thesis will analyze the phenomenon of white urban ministry through the lens of critical whiteness studies and psychoanalytic theory, drawing on Shannon Sullivan’s notion of whiteness as unconscious habit characterized by ontological expansiveness. I propose that sincere efforts on the part of white urban ministry practitioners to form and nurture diverse communities rooted in place are impeded by habitual modes of relationship to place formed in predominantly white contexts, which reproduce, however unintentionally, patterns of white supremacy and displacement of people of color. The thesis begins with a survey of print and online sources including accounts by white urban ministry practitioners and critiques of their models. I then addre...

Journal of Pastoral Theology, 2017

In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-e... more In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, "Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress." In it, she confronted the popular condemnation of protests and particular incidents of looting with the broader reality of systemic white suppression of black social and economic progress. Focusing upon the anger expressed by protestors obfuscates how oppressive social policies are also manifestations of ragethat of white people. Such policies evade identification as rage due to their more suffusive nature and the social and political power that bolsters and legitimates them. White rage "doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislators and governors, who cast its efforts as noble."  In White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Anderson develops the thesis of her op-ed through a historical survey of concentrated political and legal efforts to reverse or minimize black American gains in the struggle toward equity. Synthesizing a range of historical research on successive eras of US history, Anderson leads the reader with efficiency and clarity from the Reconstruction period, through the Great Migration, Brown v. Board of Education and Jim Crow, the "war on drugs" and mass incarceration, up to contemporary voter suppression efforts in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. Thoroughly documented while remaining accessible to those outside the academy, White Rage provides a necessary corrective to popular narratives of sustained US progress in the realm of racial justice, while also serving as a primer on the nature of structural racism itself. Additionallyand crucially for the current political context-Anderson highlights recurring rhetorical strategies employed by white people to minimize the nature and effects of racial oppression and legitimize white discomfort at the "overreach" of progress toward equality and thus justify regressive policies. By documenting the policies and court decisions designed to preserve white supremacy in the face of progress, as well as the consistent rhetorical moves used to defend such practices, White Rage places the most recent iterations of white backlash within a clarifying historical context. It thus serves as a valuable resource for justice-minded communities strategizing how to best advance the struggle for equity. Anderson begins with an account of "Reconstructing Reconstruction," explaining how the early promise of full recognition of African-American citizenship in the wake of the Civil War was betrayed in favor of an overriding concern for reintegrating Confederate states into the Union. After noting Lincoln's lack of clarity and resolve regarding the cause of the war and the need to prioritize equality for formerly enslaved people, Anderson turns her attention to the actions of President Andrew Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders, rescind the Freedmen's Bureau order

Journal of Pastoral Theology, 2017

In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-e... more In the immediate aftermath of the Ferguson uprising of August , Carol Anderson penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, "Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress." In it, she confronted the popular condemnation of protests and particular incidents of looting with the broader reality of systemic white suppression of black social and economic progress. Focusing upon the anger expressed by protestors obfuscates how oppressive social policies are also manifestations of ragethat of white people. Such policies evade identification as rage due to their more suffusive nature and the social and political power that bolsters and legitimates them. White rage "doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislators and governors, who cast its efforts as noble."  In White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Anderson develops the thesis of her op-ed through a historical survey of concentrated political and legal efforts to reverse or minimize black American gains in the struggle toward equity. Synthesizing a range of historical research on successive eras of US history, Anderson leads the reader with efficiency and clarity from the Reconstruction period, through the Great Migration, Brown v. Board of Education and Jim Crow, the "war on drugs" and mass incarceration, up to contemporary voter suppression efforts in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the presidency. Thoroughly documented while remaining accessible to those outside the academy, White Rage provides a necessary corrective to popular narratives of sustained US progress in the realm of racial justice, while also serving as a primer on the nature of structural racism itself. Additionallyand crucially for the current political context-Anderson highlights recurring rhetorical strategies employed by white people to minimize the nature and effects of racial oppression and legitimize white discomfort at the "overreach" of progress toward equality and thus justify regressive policies. By documenting the policies and court decisions designed to preserve white supremacy in the face of progress, as well as the consistent rhetorical moves used to defend such practices, White Rage places the most recent iterations of white backlash within a clarifying historical context. It thus serves as a valuable resource for justice-minded communities strategizing how to best advance the struggle for equity. Anderson begins with an account of "Reconstructing Reconstruction," explaining how the early promise of full recognition of African-American citizenship in the wake of the Civil War was betrayed in favor of an overriding concern for reintegrating Confederate states into the Union. After noting Lincoln's lack of clarity and resolve regarding the cause of the war and the need to prioritize equality for formerly enslaved people, Anderson turns her attention to the actions of President Andrew Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders, rescind the Freedmen's Bureau order

Religious Education, 2019

This paper explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional cultu... more This paper explores the role of white comfort in sustaining white hegemony in institutional culture and classroom dynamics. The presumption of comfort and security in established social norms enacts an embodied commitment to white supremacy that operates concurrently with conscious, articulated desires to pursue equity, as it delimits how white people imagine what authentically equitable institutions might look and feel like. The paper draws upon theological uses of phenomenology and developmental psychology to describe how the white self develops within a hegemonic social milieu, and how an embodied sense of agency and comfort within unjust social structures facilitates white normativity.

Post-Traumatic Public Theology, 2016

Recent public attention on police violence perpetrated on black people and the response of protes... more Recent public attention on police violence perpetrated on black people and the response of protest movements illustrate the nature of structural racism as ongoing cultural trauma—a form of physical and psychic assault on the humanity of people of color. Efforts of dominant white cultural institutions to address racism are generally compromised by a distorted narrative frame which obfuscates the pervasive systemic nature of white supremacy and the extent of the trauma experienced. This essay surveys psychological research on the traumatic effects of racism and highlights the contributions of black theologians who challenge popular Christian narratives of “racial reconciliation,” for failing to address white complicity in the deeply embedded, trauma-generating nature of structural racism in the social and cultural order.