The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America
A historical study that moves from Puritan colonists to twentieth-century mainline Protestant churches in order to show how American Christianity became entangled with racial hierarchy. It brings whiteness inside religious history into view.
Work Information
The history of faith is also the history of racial order.
Forrest G. Wood traces the race question in American Christianity from the colonial period to the twentieth century. The book offers a broad historical argument about the linkage between religious ideals and racial discrimination.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Published
- 1990-04-28
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780394579931
- ISBN-10
- 0394579933
- Price
- 6556 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Religion & Spirituality
Explores the relationship between Christianity and racism in America, arguing that the majority of Christian thought and conduct has promoted and sustained racial injustice
Reviews
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Arrogance of faith just arrived much needed to understand and address issues of the ecology of mind controls
Will read it during the holidays ...get back to me,The concept is important as a human experience and understanding of others
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Kudos to Wood
I am very happy I found this book. It clarified and confirmed my own conclusion as to why the racism in North America differs and is more pernicious than racism in Latin America. I had concluded it was due to the Protestant vs.Catholic heritages of these two regions. The Spanish and Portuguese had long histories of dealing with darker skinned people prior to coming to the New World, mixing with them readily, and seeking to bring them into the church. They accepted the natives as people. This was not the case with the Protestants of northern Europe who with their Calvanist theology of exclusivity all to easily scorned and spurned people unlike themselves. We have become more socially tolerant of human differences with Christianity playing a role as Wood clearly points out. Yet blind dogmatism and lack of compassion remains too strong a component of all major God-fearing faiths and Wood has certainly exposed Christianity for being complicit.