![]() Butler emphasizes how evangelicals have consistently ignored the horrors of enslaving Africans and the ugly reality of Native American genocide. She examines the theology of evangelicalism, which she argues is often infused with racism by perpetuating the supremacy of white Christian values. ![]() Butler argues that evangelicalism must confront how white supremacy and racism within the church have helped create and perpetuate this environment. It outlines how forces such as the slave trade, colonization, Jim Crow laws, and redlining created the current climate of racial animosity in America. The book begins by providing a history of white evangelicalism in the United States. ![]() ![]() Butler argues that the American evangelical Christian church plays an integral role in white supremacy, and that racism is so pervasive and embedded in the evangelical church’s mission and doctrines that very few think to question it. White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler offers a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the history and current reality of racism within the American evangelical Christian church. ![]()
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