Christian supremacy : reckoning with the roots of antisemitism and racism / Magda Teter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teter, Magda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and antisemitism--History.

Christianity and antisemitism.

Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

Racism.

White supremacy movements--United States--Religious aspects--History.

White supremacy movements.

White supremacy movements--Europe--Religious aspects--History.

Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

White supremacy movements--Religious aspects.

Europe.

United States.

White supremacy movements--United States--History.

White supremacy movements--Europe--History.

Genre:

History

Informational works

Informational works.

Physical Description:

xviii, 389 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology. Since 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. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. 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 in slavery," and how the supposed theological inferiority of Jews became inscribed into law, creating tangible structures that reinforced a sense of Christian domination and superiority. With the dawn of European colonialism, a distinct brand of European Christian supremacy found expression in the legally sanctioned enslavement and exploitation of people of color, later taking the form of white Christian supremacy in the New World. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence ranging from the theological and legal to the philosophical and artistic, Christian Supremacy is a profound reckoning with history that traces the roots of the modern rejection of Jewish and Black equality to an enduring Christian heritage of exclusion, intolerance, and persecution"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Enduring marks of inferiority

The sketches of social hierarchy in early Christian thought

Christian supersessionism becomes Christian supremacy

A white European Christian identity emerges

European Christian supremacy and modern citizenship

Slavery, citizenship, and the legal status of free Blacks

The fault lines on race, religion, and American citizenship

Contesting Black citizenship and equality

Backlash against Jewish equality

Visualizing social hierarchy

The (stunted) reckoning

Reckoning with the Christian legacy of antisemitism and racism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Teter, Magda. Christian supremacy.

ISBN:

9780691242583

0691242585

OCLC:

1330196245

Publisher Number:

40031812983