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

这个跨学科的项目询问英国圣公会，土地阶级和煤矿社区在英国十九世纪的殖民背景下的关系。它以东北煤田为重点，考察了基督教、帝国主义和掠夺性想象的作用，这些想象证明了国内外对自然和人力资本的剥削是合理的。特别是，它认为教会和士绅之间的工业勾结是如何由一个合理化的多重不平等的道德框架，其影响持续到今天。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.