Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the "chosen ones" has often been translated into racial categories as well. In other words, Christian supremacy has historically lent itself to white supremacy, with disastrous consequences. Hill Fletcher proposes educational strategies to disentangle the two that will help us move forward toward racial healing in America.

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Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the "chosen ones" has often been translated into racial categories as well. In other words, Christian supremacy has historically lent itself to white supremacy, with disastrous consequences. Hill Fletcher proposes educational strategies to disentangle the two that will help us move forward toward racial healing in America.

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Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

by Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

by Jeannine Hill Fletcher

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Overview

Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the "chosen ones" has often been translated into racial categories as well. In other words, Christian supremacy has historically lent itself to white supremacy, with disastrous consequences. Hill Fletcher proposes educational strategies to disentangle the two that will help us move forward toward racial healing in America.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626982376
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 07/23/2020
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Jeannine Hill Fletcher is a constructive theologian at Fordham University whose research is at the intersection of systematic theology and issues of diversity, including gender, race, and religious diversity. Her books include Monopoly on Salvation? A Feminist Approach to Religious Pluralism and Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering interreligious Dialogue.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 How Christian Supremacy Gave Birth to White Supremacy 1

2 The Witchcraft of White Supremacy 45

3 When Words Create Worlds 82

4 The Symbolic Capital of New Testament Love 107

5 Christ Crucified 129

6 Christian Love in a Weighted World 156

Index 187

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