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.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
J. Kameron Carter
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-2503-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4780-2503-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781478025030 |
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