The Racialization of Religion in America Because of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

This paper seeks to interrogate through the application of a religious study oriented nomos the religion-historical character and nature of the racialized membership paradigm present within modern-day Judaism, Islam and Christianity in America. A sociocultural point overlooked by some scholars is in what ways the human trafficking of Africans into the United States and elsewhere facilitated the creation of a peculiar religio-racial disposition within said Abrahamic religions. Discerning how the inculturation consequences of this racialized religious temperament are now being applied to oppress people of a darker-hued complexion within American society functionally is relevant to present-day rapprochement efforts concerning social justice.