Uncover the truth about the scandal that shook the Texas Baptist community, buried for over a century.
In doing so, this book takes a first step toward dismantling those structures of oppression..
Iconoclastic and meticulous, Remembering Antônia Teixeira calls attention to how religious institutions have used selective memory to maintain power.
They then follow Antônia\'s journey north, her assault, and the subsequent scandal that shook Texas--until it was intentionally erased.
Beginning with Antonia\'s father Antônio Teixeira, a priest who had renounced Catholicism and become a pillar of the Baptist community in Brazil, Parsons and Chaves uproot romanticized and hagiographical accounts of the Southern Baptist Convention\'s foreign missions.
Chaves painstakingly peel back the layers of concealment that have accumulated over a century of enforced silence about the case.
Parsons and João B.
In Remembering Antônia Teixeira , Mikeal C.
Rather than hold the guilty party accountable, Rufus Burleson and other prominent members of the Baptist community in Waco launched a campaign of intimidation, victim-blaming, and cover-up to preserve the virtuous image of their institution.
The assault took place in Burleson\'s backyard and was the first of a series of assaults that eventually left the young Baylor student pregnant.
Both had been guests in the house of Baylor University president Rufus Burleson.
In 1894 Steen Morris raped Antônia Teixeira.
Uncover the truth about the scandal that shook the Texas Baptist community, buried for over a century
