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Essay: Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery

A depiction of Christoper Columbus arriving in the Americas by Gergio Deluci, circa 1893.

ANDREW WHITEHEAD, an associate professor of sociology at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and author of the forthcoming ‘American Idolatry’, says more direct action from the Catholic Church is necessary to uproot the remnants of the doctrine…