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Race and Secularism in America

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This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Contributors from ...
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This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for change.
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Pages: 288
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Publication Date: 01 March 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231174916
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Social History

Race and Secularism in America shows how conversations about race and secularism can be enriched by bringing the two together. This timeliness, coupled with the excellence of the contributors, makes the book essential reading for our times.

Jonathon S. Kahn is associate professor of religion at Vassar College. He is the author of Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Vincent W. Lloyd is assistant professor of religion at Syracuse University. His books include The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology and the edited volume Race and Political Theology.

Introduction: Managing Race, Managing Religion, by Vincent W. Lloyd
Part I: Orientations
1. White Supremacy and Black Insurgency as Political Theology, by George Shulman
2. Secular Compared to What? Toward a History of the Trope of Black Sacred/Secular Fluidity, by Josef Sorett
Part II: Readings
3. Slaves, Slavery, and the Secular Age: Or, Tales of Haunted Scholars, Liberating Prisons, Exorcised Divinities, and Immanent Devils, by Edward J. Blum
4. "Welcome Back to the Living": Resurrections of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Secular Age, by Erica R. Edwards
5. Overlooking Race and Secularism in Muslim Philadelphia, by Joel Blecher and Joshua Dubler
Part III: Inflections
6. Two Ways of Looking at an Invisible Man: Race, the Secular, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Theology, by M. Cooper Harriss
7. Secular Coloniality: The Afterlife of Religious and Racial Tropes, by William D. Hart
8. Binding Landscapes: Secularism, Race, and the Spatial Modern, by Willie James Jennings
Conclusion: James Baldwin and a Theology of Justice in a Secular Age, by Jonathon Kahn
Afterword: Critical Intersections: Race, Secularism, Gender, by Tracy Fessenden
List of Contributors
Index