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English
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Mormonism and White Supremacy : American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
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New York
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Oxford University Press
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"This book seeks to instigate soul-searching - academic, institutional, and personal - on the matter of how American Christianity has contributed to white supremacy...As a person of faith and as a scholar of religion, race, gender, and culture in America, I see a role for scholarship and teaching in unsettling and interjecting urgency into conversations around religion and race in America. When I look back, I can see that historical scholarship has focused on the clearest examples of good and evil : on the ways religion has been mobilized in the service of anti-racist activism, especially by Black churches, or, conversley, in the service of explicit forms of white racism, especially among white evangelicals in the American South. But given that the definition of white supremacy has evolved to incorporate the quotidian systems of white privilege that structure American life everywhere, it seems to me that we need to evolve our discussion of the role American Christianity has played in securing and sustaining racial privilege more broadly." [Author]