Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism Teter Magda
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism Teter Magda A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian…
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Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism Teter Magda
A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theologySince the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. Christian Supremacy demonstrates how theological and legal frameworks created by the church centuries ago laid the seeds of antisemitism and anti-Black racism and reveals why Christian identity lies at the heart of the world's violent white supremacy movements.In a powerful historical narrative spanning nearly two millennia, Magda Teter describes how Christian theology of late antiquity cast Jews as "children born to slavery," and how the supposed theological inferiority of Jews became This troubling legacy still haunts us today.
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