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| For example, he too facilely points to texts in John's Gospel--in particular, Jesus' words in Jn 2:19, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days"--as direct evidence that the historical Jesus viewed himself as the new temple. It is to sidestep by extension issues of enslaved black women's sexual and psychic injury, slavery's despair and compulsory survival within its prescribed power domains, and to imply rather facilely that longevity and paternalism, or rather endurance in paternalism, should somehow be understood as interracial harmony and not white supremacist and sexist domination. The concept of moral panic, of public hysteria over topics ranging from ritual child sex abuse to designer drugs to terrorism, is a regular theme of Jenkins' work (one he has promoted a little too facilely in treating the recent management scandal over sexual misconduct by Catholic priests). |
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