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Divine Discontent - The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois (Paperback)
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Divine Discontent - The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois (Paperback)
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W. E. B. Du Bois is an improbable candidate for a project in
religion. His skepticism of and, even, hostility toward religion is
readily established and canonically accepted. Indeed, he spent his
career rejecting normative religious commitments to institutions
and supernatural beliefs. In this book, Jonathon Kahn offers a
fresh and controversial reading of Du Bois that seeks to overturn
this view. Kahn contends that the standard treatment of Du Bois
turns a deaf ear to his writings. For if we're open to their
religious timbre, those writings-from his epoch-making The Souls of
Black Folk to his unstudied series of parables that depict the
lynching of an African American Christ-reveal a virtual obsession
with religion. Du Bois's moral, literary, and political imagination
is inhabited by religious rhetoric, concepts and stories. Divine
Discontent recovers and introduces readers to the remarkably
complex and varied religious world in Du Bois's writings. It's a
world of sermons, of religious virtues such as sacrifice and piety,
of jeremiads that fight for a black American nation within the
larger nation. Unlike other African American religious voices at
the time, however, Du Bois's religious orientation is distinctly
heterodox-it exists outside the bounds of institutional
Christianity. Kahn shows how Du Bois self-consciously marshals
religious rhetoric, concepts, typologies, narratives, virtues, and
moods in order to challenge traditional Christian worldview in
which events function to confirm a divine order. Du Bois's
antimetaphysical religious voice, he argues, places him firmly in
the American tradition of pragmatic religious naturalism typified
by William James. This innovative reading of Du Bois should appeal
to scholars of American religion, intellectual history, African
American Studies, and philosophy of religion.
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