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Grand Illuminations | Christian Slavery
No full text“Her (Gerbner’s) lecture will reflect on her own journey as a historian, including her Quaker education and background, with a focus on her deep desire to understand things that seem like paradoxes, such as ‘Christian Slavery’ and Quaker slaveholding,” said Tony Cunningham, professor of philosophy at CSB and Saint John’s University and the director of the series. Quakerism is a 17th-century Protestant movement devoted to peaceful principles.
Gerbner is an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches courses on Atlantic History, History of Religions. Magic and Medicine and the Early Modern Archive. Her research primarily focuses on the relationship between religion and race in the early American world, the Atlantic and the Caribbean. She grew up in Pennsylvania and attended a Quaker school, where her historical research led to the intriguing discovery that Quakers played a significant role in the course of slavery.
Gerbner’s book, “Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), explores how debates between slave owners, Black Christians and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race.
“‘Christian Slavery’ refers to the belief that slavery could be reformed and made to be more Christian,” Gerbner stated in an interview with Kirsten Boles, assistant editor for Reading Religion. “Protestant missionaries often used this argument when they encountered resistance from slave owners who did not want their slaves to become Christian. It was an attempt to reconcile Christianity and slavery.”
This lecture is a part of the lecture series Grand Illuminations: Speaking from the Heart
Making Chile’s October 2019-March 2020 ‘Estallido social’ (Social explosion) accessible to students on campus
Get PDFAfter the cancellation of the CSBSJU study abroad program in Viña del Mar, Chile in Fall 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I propose teaching a course on campus centered on the intense protests that shook Santiago and all of Chile in the fall of 2019. Specifically, I plan to engage students on an exploration of how, in spite of the deep changes Chile has undergone since the 1990 democratic transition that followed the 1973-1988 dictatorship, there remains a widespread exclusion reflected in issues that have recently received global attention, such as racial, gender and socio-economic inequality, as well as immigration and environmental challenges.
In dealing with current ongoing developments, I concentrate on pedagogical strategies and teaching/learning approaches that can make them more accessible. I propose a journalistic approach, which involves reading of local newspapers and periodicals, as well as watching a documentary, grounded on written reflection, group presentations and discussions. I also incorporate arts-based sources like song and graphic art as well as popular symbols and public events, which have been a mainstay of the street demonstrations. In order to develop students’ awareness of their own culture as it relates and differs from their own, I end with a comparison of the protests that originated in Minneapolis in May 2020 and spread through cities across the US. At the end, I invite questions and comments regarding my tentative course program as well as other experiences with the disruptions caused to Study Abroad by COVID, as we continue to engage in teaching and learning in turbulent times
Resilience and Reconciliation: Native American Boarding Schools and the Actions Crucial for Healing
No full textThe White Earth Nation, Saint Benedict’s Monastery and the College of Saint Benedict are working together to make reconciliation and healing a reality.
Sponsored by CSB Campus Ministry, the Institute for Women\u27s Leadership and the McCarthy Center
Effect of the Mississippi River on Property Values in Anoka County: A Hedonic Price Analysis
Get PDFMinnesota is known as a land of plentiful lakes, most of which provide a high economic value to the communities that surround them. This motivated us to question whether rivers play the same role to surrounding real estate. We obtained special data, housing, and neighborhood characteristics from the Minnesota Geospatial Commons for our sample of 4125 single family homes. We collected crime rate data from a neighborhood evaluation website, educational data from the Minnesota Department of Education and water quality data from the MPCA. Distance to the river was calculated with ArcMAP GIS software. A buffer was also used to group properties based on water quality monitoring stations. The data was summarized and then three separate regressions were run. The first regression, the basic model, looked at the relationship between sale value, distance to the river, whether a property was adjacent to the river and dissolved oxygen. The secondary model included those variables along with more housing characteristics and the full regression included all our experimental variables. Distance to river was significant through all three models and was shown to have a positive effect on house price when comparing the first buffer distance to the second. This study shows support for the economic value of riverside development, as results showed that property adjacent to the river is valued 32.2% higher on the market. As there is much undeveloped riverside property in Anoka County we advocate for sustainable development and redevelopment
