Christian Supremacy - book launch - Magda Teter

 Christian Supremacy - Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism  by Magda Teter [Princeton University Press] 

Reconciliation - a Christian sacrament - requires both thea sincere contrition and a sincere desire to reform.  But contrition requires understanding.  We have seen a recent example of that in the too long delayed "architecture of reconciliation" recently undertaken by the Vatican regarding the Church's mistreatment of indigenous peoples in Canada.  The penitential visit of Pope Francis was accompanied by formal renunciation of the Doctrine of Discovery.  

Another aspect of reconciliation is recognition.  Rachel Swarns' The 272 is a history and reflection on the 1838 sale of enslaved persons by Maryland's Jesuits to, among other things, shore up the finances of Georgetown college.

Magda Teter, a Fordham historian, does a deep dive into the origins of Christian Supremacy and its intertwined history of anti-semitism and racism.  

The session below is a book launch event at Fordham, New York's Jesuit University, where Teter is The Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies.

- GWC