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Friday, February 11, 2022 12:30pm

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In 2017 in Charlottesville, VA white supremacists chanted antisemitic and racist slogans. While modern antisemitism and modern racism are the outgrowth of processes associated with modernity, the ideology espoused by white supremacists in the United States and in Europe is rooted in Christian ideas of social and religious hierarchy, which developed gradually. They first sprung up in the Mediterranean and in Europe in antiquity and the Middle Ages with respect to Jews. They later emerged with respect to people of color in European colonies and in the U.S. , In this talk, Magda Teter will discuss the interplay between law, theology, and culture, arguing that the modern rejection of equality of both Jews and Black people in the West is the legacy of Christian supersessionism — a theological concept developed in antiquity and implemented in law and policy when Christianity became a political power, whose fruit was Christianity’s claim to superiority and dominance.

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