Mission, Race, and Empire: A Faculty Book Celebration
Join us May 2 at 6 PM Pacific, on campus or online, for an open conversation about Dr. Jennifer Snow’s new book!
Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context recasts the history of TEC in its context of British and American global expansion, from the 1500s through today. The book brings to the center the voices and stories of Episcopalians who have often been seen as on the edge of the church’s history.
Professor Snow (above, left) will discuss the book with two panelists: Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan (above, center) is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler Divinity School and one of the preeminent feminist and postcolonial scholars of contemporary Christianity. The Rt. Rev. Ian Douglas, PhD, (above, right) is author of one of the first books examining the relationship between mission ideology and Episcopal history and was previously Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School and later Bishop of Connecticut.
About the Book
The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew they developed particular ideologies and practices around race. As slavery was carried over into the new political formations of the United States, so too were racially based exclusions carried over in the Episcopal Church.
Mission, Race, and Empire presents a new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race. The book demonstrates the dramatic shifts within the Episcopal Church, from initial colonial violence to reflective self-critique. Jennifer Snow centers the stories of groups and individuals that have often been sidelined, including Native Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, women, and LGBTQ people, as well as the institutional leaders who sought to create, or fought against, a church that desired to be a house of prayer for all people.
You can find Mission, Race, and Empire available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook format wherever books are sold.
