Mormonism and white supremacy : American religion and the problem of racial innocence /
"This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing whi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing white privilege and have conveyed to white believers a sense of moral innoeence without requiring moral reckoning with the costs of anti-Black racism. To demonstrate these arguments, Brooks draws from Mormon history from the 1830s to the present, from an archive that includes speeches, historical documents, theological treatises, Sunday School curricula, and other documents of religious life"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190081782 0190081783 9780190081751 0190081759 9780190081775 0190081775 |