Protestant Supremacy: The Story of a Neologism
"Protestant Supremacy," the phrase that evoked the majority of commentary in this forum, is a neologism. I began researching Christian Slavery in 2005, but I did not coin "Protestant Supremacy" until 2013. I have an audio recording of the first time I used the phrase. It was duri...
| Subtitles: | FORUM ON KATHARINE GERBNER'S CHRISTIAN SLAVERY: CONVERSION AND RACE IN THE PROTESTANT ATLANTIC WORLD |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Church history
Year: 2019, Volume: 88, Issue: 3, Pages: 773-780 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Protestantism
/ Slavery
/ Whites
/ Hegemony
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | "Protestant Supremacy," the phrase that evoked the majority of commentary in this forum, is a neologism. I began researching Christian Slavery in 2005, but I did not coin "Protestant Supremacy" until 2013. I have an audio recording of the first time I used the phrase. It was during my dissertation defense and I was explaining why I felt it was wrong to use the terms "pro" or "antislavery" to describe the slavery debates of the seventeenth century. "Spiritual equality does not equal antislavery," I said at the time, when I refusing to draw a straight line from Quaker founder George Fox to later Quaker abolitionists. I needed a new way to frame the conversation. "I could call it Protestant Supremacy,'" I said. "It isn't White Supremacy in the seventeenth-century.
[Instead,] you have a contest between the ideology of Protestant Supremacy and the ideology of Christian Slavery.
That's the conversation that's important." |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640719001914 |