Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence (Brooks Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence (Brooks Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a curse of black

Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left (Cook Vaneesa)(Pevná vazba)

Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls 'spiritual socialism.' Spiritual socialists emphasized the social side of socialism and believed the most basic

The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Finley Stephen C.)(Pevná vazba)

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and

Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism (Weber Brenda R.)(Pevná vazba)

From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality,

Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (Rindge Matthew S.)(Pevná vazba)

The sacred ethos of the American Dream has become a central pillar of American civil religion. The belief that meaning is fashioned from some mixture of family, friends, a stable career, and financial security permeates American culture. Profane Parables examines three films that assault this

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean (Horne Gerald)(Paperback)

Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American 'looting'Virtually no part of the modern United States--the economy,

The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 (Madigan Tim)(Pevná vazba)

One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred,

Do Better - Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy (Ricketts Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

A practical guide to dismantling white supremacy on a personal and collective

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (Williams Angel Kyodo)(Paperback)

Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective

American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory (Dorrien Gary)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists 'The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very 'American' values it is accused of

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Blake William)(Pevná vazba)

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as ‘The Lamb', ‘The Chimney-Sweeper' and ‘The Tiger'. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled

Ethnicity and Inclusion: Religion, Race, and Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities (Horrell David G.)(Pevná vazba)

Some of today's problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity. New Testament studies, which developed contemporaneously with Europe's colonial expansion and racial ideologies, is, David

Ground Breaking - The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice (Ellsworth Scott)(Pevná vazba)

A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th

Handbook of Religion and Society (Yamane David)(Pevná vazba)

The Handbook of Religion and Society is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of a vital force in the world today. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in society. This includes both the

Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Smith Christian)(Pevná vazba)

A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the

Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Dunbar-Ortiz Roxanne)(Pevná vazba)

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans,

Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America (Vaca Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

A new history explores the commercial heart of evangelical Christianity. American evangelicalism is big business. For decades, the world's largest media conglomerates have sought out evangelical consumers, and evangelical books have regularly become international best sellers. In the early 2000s,

Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom (Picower Bree)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of how curriculum choices can perpetuate White supremacy, and radical strategies for how schools and teacher education programs can disrupt and transform racism in education When racist curriculum 'goes viral' on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a

Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion (James Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War (Morey Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the famed African American 'Buffalo Soldiers.' Among them was David Fagen, a twenty-year-old private in the

Mister Toebones: Poems (Haxton Brooks)(Pevná vazba)

The award-winning poet considers the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his tenth collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives

White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America (Joshi Khyati Y.)(Pevná vazba)

Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal features of American life,

White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality (Cashin Sheryll)(Pevná vazba)

How government created 'ghettos' and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality--and a call for abolition. The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white

Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion (Weeda Claire)(Pevná vazba)

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted