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The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America

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The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America

Forrest G. Wood

植民地時代のピューリタンから 20 世紀の主流プロテスタント教会までをたどり、アメリカのキリスト教が人種序列と結びついてきたことを問う歴史研究。宗教史の中の白人性を照らす。

宗教史人種アメリカ史プロテスタント

作品情報

信仰の歴史は、人種秩序の歴史でもある。

Forrest G. Wood が、アメリカのキリスト教史における人種問題を、植民地期から 20 世紀まで大きくたどる。宗教的理念と人種差別の結びつきを、通史的に論じる本。

書籍情報

出版社
Knopf
発売日
1990-04-28
言語
英語
ISBN-13
9780394579931
ISBN-10
0394579933
価格
6556 JPY
カテゴリ
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

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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

  • 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.

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