The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America by F. Wood

Description: "Slaveholders like U.S. President Andrew Jackson used the Bible as justification for the master-slave relationship. Christianity, contends Wood in this extensive, hard-hitting critique, played a fundamental role in shaping the white racism undergirding black slavery and made possible the near-extermination of the American Indian. Beginning with Puritan colonists preaching their superiority over Indians, down to race-motivated sectional divisions in the three mainline Protestant churches (Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist), this challenging historical study by the author of Black Scare: The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction confronts a neglected aspect of the Christian experience in America. Wood explains how Christians' attempts to convert "heathens" or "infidels" attacked the foundations of non-Christian cultures. Plantation songs, Quakers, white phobia toward black sexuality, and Social Gospel, a 19th-century liberal Protestant reform movement, also come under scrutiny." - Amazon .com "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." - Royal Realist, Amazon .com Note: Discounts for combined shipping. Also, combined orders of $30 or more of books, CDs, DVDs, comics and/or other media mail items qualify for Free Shipping! Just request total from seller. Most items sent by media mail. If you want first-class or other shipping, contact seller in advance.

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