Religion and racism : exploring the paradox : can you be a Christian and a racist?

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Religion and racism : exploring the paradox : can you be a Christian and a racist?

Title remainder

exploring the paradox : can you be a Christian and a racist?

Statement of responsibility

Theron N. Ford and Blanche Jackson Glimps

Creator

• Ford, Theron, 1945-

Contributor

• Glimps, Blanche Jackson, 1942-

Author

• Ford, Theron, 1945-
• Glimps, Blanche Jackson, 1942-

Subject

• Racism -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Racism -- United States
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• United States -- Race relations
• African Americans -- Violence against -- United States
• Race relations -- Religious aspects | Christianity

Language

eng

Summary

"This book will examine the paradox of being a Christian and a racist. A racist believes that one racial group is superior to another. Yet, since the nation's revolutionary birth, the U.S. claims a pious, devout mantel of Christianity that served as the nation's moral compass, while engaging in horrendous acts of racial violence. How can a white Christian male, sit in a church, engaging in Christian prayers, and then in cold-bloodied fashion murder nine African American Christians in their own church? Christians traditionally have always designated "churches" as places of refuge and sanctuary. The binary of whiteness and Christianity emerged and came to dominate much of the world. In the U.S. and other parts of the world, whiteness and Christianity have served to subjugate people of color even as such people themselves also came to embrace Christ's teachings, often at the cost of the loss of their traditional forms of religion and culture"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

277.30089

Index

index present

LC call number

BT734.2

LC item number

.F673 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography