The Religion of White Rage

Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress
Herausgeber: Gray, Biko Mandela; Finley, Stephen C.; Martin, Lori Latrice

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781474473705
• ISBN-10: 1474473709
• Artikelnr.: 59507105

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
"The Souls of White Folk": Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of
White Rage
Biko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice Martin
Part I: White Religious Fervor and Contemporary American Politics
1. "Make America Great Again": Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and
Melancholia in Trump's America
Stephen C. Finley
2. You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in
White Nationalism
Darrius Hills
3. "I AM that I AM": The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit,
and the Ford Motor Company
Terri Laws and Kimberly Enard
4. American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and
Responses to NFL Protests
Lori Latrice Martin
5. The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism,
and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar South
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf
6. Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White
Rage
Jason Jeffries
Part II: White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity
7. KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class Insecurity
Paul Easterling
8. Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and
Politics in Zion
Darron Smith, Brenda G. Harris, and Melissa Flores
9. Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide"
Kate Temoney
10. Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of
Gender
Biko Mandela Gray
11. White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White Woman
Danae Faulk
12. Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious
Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites
E. Anthony Muhammad
13. The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative
Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia
Tobin Miller Shearer
Conclusion
Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward
Lori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray
Notes; Bibliography; Index