Protestant Supremacy
The Story of a Neologism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3260368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katharine Gerbner (0000-0001-9911-6078, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 773-780 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640719001914 |
| OpenAlex | W2981180836 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Protestant Supremacy," the phrase that evoked the majority of commentary in this forum, is a neologism. I began researching Christian Slavery in 2005, but I did not coin "Protestant Supremacy" until 2013. I have an audio recording of the first time I used the phrase. It was during my dissertation defense and I was explaining why I felt it was wrong to use the terms "pro" or "antislavery" to describe the slavery debates of the seventeenth century. "Spiritual equality does not equal antislavery," I said at the time, when I refusing to draw a straight line from Quaker founder George Fox to later Quaker abolitionists. I needed a new way to frame the conversation. "I could call it 'Protestant Supremacy,'" I said. "It isn't White Supremacy in the seventeenth-century. ... [Instead,] you have a contest between the ideology of Protestant Supremacy and the ideology of Christian Slavery. ... That's the conversation that's important
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |