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.
- Table of Contents
- 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
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