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New book argues racism continues because it’s ‘the life-giving force of a dominant group’s religion’
“Whiteness” has become a religion to many Christians in a way that allows racism to continue in America, according to two sociology scholars.
Michael Emerson, a sociologist and fellow at Rice University in Texas, and Glenn Bracey, a professor of sociology at Villanova University in Philadelphia, make the case in their new book “The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith.”
“It’s a unified system of beliefs and practices that worships or sacralizes, not some God in this sense, but whiteness,” Emerson told Religion News Service in a recent interview.
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