Rethinking the entangled past of church, landed classes and coal mining communities: extractive theologies, unequal settlements and the call for repar

这个跨学科项目探讨了英国十九世纪殖民背景下英国圣公会、地主阶级和煤矿社区的关系。它以东北煤田为重点，考察了基督教、帝国主义和榨取式想象力的作用，这些想象力证明了国内外自然资本和人力资本的开发是合理的。特别是，它考虑了一种道德框架如何助长教会和士绅之间的工业勾结，该道德框架使多重不平等合理化，其影响至今仍然存在。该项目利用当前的政治和神学赔偿概念，考虑这些持续存在的不平等是否可能得到解决。

This interdisciplinary project interrogates the relationships of the Anglican Church, landed classes and coal mining communities in a British nineteenth-century colonial context. Focusing on the North East coalfield it examines the role of a Christian, imperial and extractive imagination, which justified exploitation of natural and human capital at home and abroad. In particular, it considers how industrial collusion between church and gentry was fuelled by an ethical framework that rationalised multiple inequalities, the effects of which persist today. Using current political and theological concepts of reparations, the project considers whether these persistent inequities might yet be resolved.