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What Do Women Have to Do With It? Race, Religion, and the Witch Hunts

  • Anya Topolski (author)
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TitleWhat Do Women Have to Do With It? Race, Religion, and the Witch Hunts
ContributorAnya Topolski (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH03
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractIn “What do Women Have to Do with It? Race, Religion, and the Witch Hunts,” Anya Topolski argues that scholarship on the European witch-hunts, which occurred across Europe from approximately 1450-1650, exposes centuries of patriarchal violence, empowered by capitalism and colonialism. Topolski presents several race-religion constellations from the early modern period in which the newly established European Christian States sought unity and global supremacy through expulsion and colonization. She argues that this is the same historical space and place – or stage – upon which women were burned as witches. It is shown how the early modern witch hunts in Europe played a central, if often forgotten, role in this project of forming Europe as White, Male and Christian. European Christianity, by way of colonialism, provides a blueprint for the exclusionary dehumanization that now serves as an epistemic and political foundation for much of the globe.
Keywords
  • Christianity
  • race
  • Witch hunts
  • religion
  • Europe
Contributors

Anya Topolski

(author)
Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen

Anya Topolski is Associate Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on the race-religion constellations in Europe, past and present. Related publications include: “The Race-Religion Intersection: A European Contribution to the Critical Philosophy of Race” (2018), and “Good Jew, Bad Jew… ‘Managing’ Europe’s Others” (2017). Her most recent books are: Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality (Rowman and Littlefield 2015) and Is There a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective (De Gruyter 2016). Her areas of expertise are racism, political philosophy, ethics, European identity and exclusion, antisemitism and Islamophobia, political theology, Jewish thought, Arendt, Levinas, and the myth of Judeo-Christianity.