What Kind of Christianity (eBook)

A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church

William Yoo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
228 Seiten
Presbyterian Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64698-250-9 (ISBN)

Infos

2023 Award of Excellence, Religion Communicators CouncilLike most Americans, Presbyterians in the United States know woefully little about the history of slavery and the rise of anti-Black racism in our country. Most think of slavery as a tragedy that just happened, without considering how it happened and who was involved. In What Kind of Christianity,William Yoo paints an accurate picture of the complicity of the majority of Presbyterians in promoting, supporting, or willfully ignoring the enslavement of other human beings. Most Presbyterians knew of the widespread physical and sexual violence that enslavers inflicted on the enslaved, and either approved of it or did nothing to prevent it. Most Presbyterians in the nineteenth centurywhether in the South or the Northheld racist attitudes toward African Americans and acted on those attitudes on a daily basis. In short, during that period when the Presbyterian Church was establishing itself as a central part of American life, most of its members were promoting slavery and anti-Black racism. In this important book, William Yoo demonstrates that to understand how Presbyterian Christians can promote racial justice today, they must first understand and acknowledge how deeply racial injustice is embedded in their history and identity as a denomination.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church, History of Presbyterian Church, What Kind of Christianity, William Yoo Books, William Yoo, PCUSA History Books, PCUSA History, Books on Racism in Church
• ISBN-10: 1-64698-250-9 / 1646982509
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64698-250-9 / 9781646982509