Symbiotic Supremacies: Racial and Religious
The grounding thesis of this essay is that claims of supremacy feed off each other and that religious supremacies are particularly nutritious for racial and national claims of superiority. After describing the nature and contents of religious claims of supremacy and how they naturally lead to the su...
| Published in: | Buddhist Christian studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
University of Hawaii Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Buddhist Christian studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Christianity
/ Whites
/ Hegemony
/ Myanmar
/ Sri Lanka
/ Buddhism
/ Nationalism
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism CB Christian life; spirituality KBM Asia KBQ North America ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
symbiotic supremacies
B Christology B superiority B Robert Bellah B religious supremacy B Religious Violence B White Supremacy B Buddhist supremacy B Axial Age |
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| Summary: | The grounding thesis of this essay is that claims of supremacy feed off each other and that religious supremacies are particularly nutritious for racial and national claims of superiority. After describing the nature and contents of religious claims of supremacy and how they naturally lead to the subordination if not replacement of others, the author then takes up concrete cases of how Christian supremacy has led to and sustained White supremacy in the United States, and how convictions of Buddhist supremacy have inspired Burmese supremacy in Myanmar and Sinhalese supremacy in Sri Lanka. The conclusion is self-evident: to combat racial supremacy, religious leaders and practitioners are called to overcome religious supremacy. But that calls for another "axial shift" in the history of religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-9472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Buddhist Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/bcs.2019.0015 |