Gauntlet at the Lychgate: How and Why is the Church of England Racist?

From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: ppub 2023-12-14, issued 2023-12-14Publication status: PublishedRecently, much has been said and written about racial justice in the Church, often at cross purposes, mired in ambiguous terms and incompatible frameworks. Racism remains just beyond a universally accepted model of the problem, tangled in a host of other historical, ideological, cultural, political and economic compulsions. In the Western Church this is exacerbated by the theologically rooted othering that is the legacy of our Church history, complicit in empire and slavery and mired in a culture shaped by a hermeneutic of ethnoracial hierarchy. This summary article considers this particular structural drive and introduces the broad theological and ecclesiological legacy of systemic racism in the Western Church, narrating the theologised virtue aesthetics which form a backdrop to institutional racism in the Church of England

Emotion work, conflict, and family business performance

Due to the inherent overlap of family and business, family members who work in family businesses (family co-workers) experience unique interactions and relationship dynamics. Such interactions and relationships among family co-workers are critical to the performance of the family business. By using the lens of emotion work and organizational conflict, this paper develops propositions exploring how emotion work and emotion regulation patterns influence the team dynamics in the family business. By extending the emotion work literature to the complex and understudied context of family businesses, this paper contributes to the emotion work and family business literatures. Further, this paper also identifies links between emotion work strategies and conflict patterns, contributing to the team literature