The Anarchy of Black Religion
A Mystic Song
Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2503-0 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2503-0 (ISBN)
Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, J. Kameron Carter examines the philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to theorize religion as a central feature of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.
In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial racial technologies wherein antiblackness is a founding and guiding religious principle of the modern world. He therefore sets black religion apart from modern religion, even as it tries to include and enclose it. Carter calls this approach the black study of religion. Black religion emerges not as doctrinal, confessional, or denominational but as a set of poetic and artistic strategies for improvisatory living and gathering. Potentiating non-exclusionary belonging, black religion is anarchic, mystical, and experimental: it reveals alternative relationalities and visions of matter that can counter capitalism’s extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology. By enacting a black study of religion, Carter elucidates the violence of religion as the violence of modern life while also opening an alternate praxis of the sacred.
In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial racial technologies wherein antiblackness is a founding and guiding religious principle of the modern world. He therefore sets black religion apart from modern religion, even as it tries to include and enclose it. Carter calls this approach the black study of religion. Black religion emerges not as doctrinal, confessional, or denominational but as a set of poetic and artistic strategies for improvisatory living and gathering. Potentiating non-exclusionary belonging, black religion is anarchic, mystical, and experimental: it reveals alternative relationalities and visions of matter that can counter capitalism’s extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology. By enacting a black study of religion, Carter elucidates the violence of religion as the violence of modern life while also opening an alternate praxis of the sacred.
J. Kameron Carter is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and is codirector of IU’s Center for Religion and the Human. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account.
Acknowledgments xi
An Anarchic Introduction (Antiblackness as Religion) 1
1. Black (Feminist) Anarchy 27
2. The Matter of Anarchy 47
3. Anarchy and the Fetish 63
4. The Anarchy of Black Religion 75
5. Anarchy Is a Poem, Is a Song . . . 106
An Anarchic Coda (A Mystic Song) 132
Notes 139
Bibliography 171
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-2503-4 / 1478025034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-2503-0 / 9781478025030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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