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Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion.When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal.Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Slavery and the church --- Slaves --- Christian converts --- Church and slavery --- Church --- Christians --- Converts --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History. --- Religious life --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Atlantic Area --- Atlantic Region --- Race relations --- African Studies. --- African-American Studies. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Caribbean Studies. --- Latin American Studies.
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"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.
Antislavery movements --- Multilingualism --- Multilingualism --- Multilingualism --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Pennsylvania --- Religion --- History
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"Currently scholarship on science and religion covers a range of topics, including religious responses to scientific and technological developments, methodological approaches to the study of science and religion, and normative proposals for the relationship between the categories. Despite this breadth, the field typically frames important questions of human existence as abstract philosophical and theological inquiries. But what if these are not two distinctly separate categories ? Can science and religion scholarship become more public-facing and speak directly to the social and political issues that shape our everyday lives ? With Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, and Terence Keel argue that this is possible when perspectives from three areas of critical theory-critical-race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory-are brought to bear on the field. By engaging with these critical theories, scholars would be better able to account for how histories of empire, slavery, and patriarchy have shaped science and religion in modern times. Developing this critical historical perspective would, in turn, enable science and religion scholarship to speak meaningfully to contemporary political issues including climate change, immigration, healthcare, reproductive justice, and sexual identity. The book seeks to reframe the study of science and religion such that those who engage with its scholarship will be better positioned to explore questions such as: should religious communities be exempt from government mandated healthcare provisions based on health science ? Should religious leaders make public claims about the status of life and personhood in reaction to changing reproductive an genetic technologies ? Are indigenous communities obligated to believe the Out of Africa hypothesis developed by Euro-American biologists ? The intent of these and similar questions is to encourage an approach to the study of science and religion that more fully addresses the lied realities of contemporary communities around the globe"--
Religion and science. --- Religion --- Critical race theory --- Feminist theory --- Postcolonialism --- Queer theory --- Religion et sciences. --- Théorie critique de la race --- Théorie féministe --- Postcolonialisme --- Théorie queer --- Philosophy --- Philosophie
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