Gebundenes Buch

The Religion of White Rage

White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Herausgeber: Gray, Biko Mandela; Finley, Stephen C.; Martin, Lori Latrice

Beschreibung

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.

Autor

Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies and Director of the African & African American Studies Program at Louisiana State University. He is co-editor of authored Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"... (with Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page Jr, Brill, 2014) and author of the monograph, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam. Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is working on his first monograph, tentatively called Black Life Matter, wherein he turns to those lost to state-sanctioned violence in order to theorise blackness and religion as critical sites for subject-formation. He has published articles in Religion Compass and Journal of Africana Religions, and he has an upcoming article that will be published in Correspondences on the relationship between blackness and mysticism in the study of Western Esotericism. Lori Latrice Martin is Professor in the Department of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous scholarly works. Martin's most recent publications include South Baton Rouge, Black Asset Poverty and the Enduring Racial Divide, Color Struck and Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of American Public Schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781474473705
• ISBN-10: 1474473709
• Artikelnr.: 59507105