BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COLONIAL CHRISTIANITY: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF WEAPONIZED CHRISITIANITY IN POSTCOLONIAL

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Jamal L McMillion (Creator)

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East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Abstract: In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade African geographies, commodify and objectify African bodies and negate African identity. Weaponized Christianity fostered anti-Blackness. Through textual analysis of selected colonial/postcolonial, I explored Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus\; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin\; Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography, The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself\; Richard Wright’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Children\; and Alice Walker’s novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland through a post-colonial lens of oppression and present European weaponization of Biblical ideologies as the underpinning of historical and contemporary Black oppression, as such ideologies were/are reinforced by majoritarian institutions and performative practices that created a global problematized social hierarchy that became more intractable as it persisted.

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Language: English

Date: 2023

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The Bible and Black oppression\nMade in his own image

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