Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence

ISBN-10
0190081783
ISBN-13
9780190081782
Category
Mormon Church
Language
English
Author
Joanna Brooks

Description

"This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing white privilege and have conveyed to white believers a sense of moral innoeence without requiring moral reckoning with the costs of anti-Black racism. To demonstrate these arguments, Brooks draws from Mormon history from the 1830s to the present, from an archive that includes speeches, historical documents, theological treatises, Sunday School curricula, and other documents of religious life"--

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