The Religious Origins of White Supremacy and The Doctrine of Christian Discovery
“The Religious Origins of White Supremacy and The Doctrine of Christian Discovery,” an Outcome archive entry by Philip P. Arnold, Sandra Bigtree, Adam DJ Brett. The entry belongs to the crosscurrents collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.
In brief, it addresses As we wrap up this volume and grant period we would like to express our deepest gratitude to S.B. Rodriguez Plate and the entire team of CrossCurrents for. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.
The source text highlights terms and contexts including INTRODUCTION Teaching the Doctrine of Discovery Philip P. Arnold along with Adam DJ Brett and Sebastian Modrow have developed an advanced undergraduate/graduate syllabus centered around this work. The proposed course is entitled The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Syllabus. Likewise, Arnold is also teaching a course on the religious dimensions of white supremacy. These two courses, one proposed and one happening in the Spring of 2024, are both explorations of ways to teach and integrate not only the lessons from the conference but also digital humanities pedagogies like. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.
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Adam DJ Brett, "The Religious Origins of White Supremacy and The Doctrine of Christian Discovery," Doctrine of Discovery Project (12 June 2025), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/link/outcome/crosscurrents/essay2/religious-origins/.
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