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Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh
and blood through local organizing, national and global protests,
hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants
like "All night! All day! We're gonna fight for Freddie Gray!" and
"No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!" give voice
simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that
sustains BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of
individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted
or rejected, contrary to general perceptions, religion neither has
been absent nor excluded from the movement's activities. This
volume has a simple, but far-reaching argument: religion is an
important thread in BLM. To advance this claim, Race, Religion, and
Black Lives Matter examines religion's place in the movement
through the lenses of history, politics, and culture. While this
collection is not exhaustive or comprehensive in its coverage of
religion and BLM, it selectively anthologizes unique aspects of
Black religious history, thought, and culture in relation to
political struggle in the contemporary era. The chapters aim to
document historical change in light of current trends and current
events. The contributors analyze religion and BLM in a current
historical moment fraught with aggressive, fascist, authoritarian
tendencies and one shaped by profound ingenuity, creativity, and
insightful perspectives on Black history and culture.
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh
and blood through local organizing, national and global protests,
hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience. Chants
like "All night! All day! We're gonna fight for Freddie Gray!" and
"No justice, no fear! Sandra Bland is marching here!" give voice
simultaneously to the rage, truth, hope, and insurgency that
sustains BLM. While BLM has generously welcomed a broad group of
individuals whom religious institutions have historically resisted
or rejected, contrary to general perceptions, religion neither has
been absent nor excluded from the movement's activities. This
volume has a simple, but far-reaching argument: religion is an
important thread in BLM. To advance this claim, Race, Religion, and
Black Lives Matter examines religion's place in the movement
through the lenses of history, politics, and culture. While this
collection is not exhaustive or comprehensive in its coverage of
religion and BLM, it selectively anthologizes unique aspects of
Black religious history, thought, and culture in relation to
political struggle in the contemporary era. The chapters aim to
document historical change in light of current trends and current
events. The contributors analyze religion and BLM in a current
historical moment fraught with aggressive, fascist, authoritarian
tendencies and one shaped by profound ingenuity, creativity, and
insightful perspectives on Black history and culture.
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