Christian Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Slavery write by Katharine Gerbner. This book was released on 2018-02-07. Christian Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Popes and Slavery
The Popes and Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Popes and Slavery write by Joel S. Panzer. This book was released on 1996. The Popes and Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reveals how the Church has in the past and still does speak up decisively to halt the infamous trade in human flesh.
Church and Slavery
Church and Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Church and Slavery write by . This book was released on 1848. Church and Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Institutional Slavery
Institutional Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutional Slavery write by Jennifer Oast. This book was released on 2016-01-05. Institutional Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.
For the Glory of God
For the Glory of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For the Glory of God write by Rodney Stark. This book was released on 2004-08-29. For the Glory of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn "witches," and denounce slavery. With his usual clarity and skepticism toward the received wisdom, Stark finds the origins of these disparate phenomena within monotheistic religious organizations. Endemic in such organizations are pressures to maintain religious intensity, which lead to intense conflicts and schisms that have far-reaching social results. Along the way, Stark debunks many commonly accepted ideas. He interprets the sixteenth-century flowering of science not as a sudden revolution that burst religious barriers, but as the normal, gradual, and direct outgrowth of medieval theology. He also shows that the very ideas about God that sustained the rise of science led also to intense witch-hunting by otherwise clear-headed Europeans, including some celebrated scientists. This conception of God likewise yielded the Christian denunciation of slavery as an abomination--and some of the fiercest witch-hunters were devoted participants in successful abolitionist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. For the Glory of God is an engrossing narrative that accounts for the very different histories of the Christian and Muslim worlds. It fundamentally changes our understanding of religion's role in history and the forces behind much of what we point to as secular progress.
