Cordano Lecture: Light Space, Good Space? The Throne Room in the Revelation of John as White Mythic Space

Christine Thomas
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When:
April 29, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm America/Los Angeles Timezone
2025-04-29T16:00:00-07:00
2025-04-29T17:30:00-07:00
Where:
HSSB 4080
Cost:
Free
Contact:
C. M. Thomas
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Catholic Studies Community Event Lecture
Cordano Lecture: Light Space, Good Space? The Throne Room in the Revelation of John as White Mythic Space @ HSSB 4080

Prof. Lynn Huber, Powell Professor of Religious Studies, Elon University

Depicted by John as kaleidoscopic and colorful, the heavenly throne room in the Book of Revelation (written in the first century CE) often gets represented by modern interpreters as a space where whiteness predominates. In this talk, which is part of a book project on Revelation and Whiteness, Lynn R. Huber explores how these textual and visual readings diminish the book’s complex use of color, and participate in constructing modern racialized thinking and anti-Black racism. She suggests new ways of reading based on ancient color theory.