Christianity and Racism: Conspiracy or Coincidence?

Robert Beckford is Research Professor at the Centre for Black Theology, The Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham. A BAFTA award winning filmmaker, he has written and presented over twenty documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery USA. His most recent publications include Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity (Bloomsbury, 2014), Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change (Routledge, 2006) and Dread and Pentecostal: A Political Theology for the Black Church in Britain (SPCK, 2000).