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“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of
the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth
century. Ali’s message was an aspirational call for black
Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state,
one that would both ensure protection for all Americans under
rights guaranteed by the law and correct the unjust implementation
of law that prevailed in the racially segregated United States. Ali
and his followers took on this mission of citizenship as a
religious calling, working to carve out a place for themselves in
American democracy and to bring about a society that lived up to
what they considered the sacred purpose of the law. In The Aliites,
Spencer Dew traces the history and impact of Ali’s radical fusion
of law and faith. Dew uncovers the influence of Ali’s teaching,
including the many movements it inspired. As Dew shows, Ali’s
teachings demonstrate an implicit, yet critical component of the
American approach to law: that it should express our highest ideals
for society, even if it is rarely perfect in practice. Examining
this robustly creative yet largely overlooked lineage of African
American religious thought, Dew provides a window onto religion,
race, citizenship, and law in America.
How does viewing the American project through a theological lens
complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of
American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking
essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United
States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring
together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some
familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America.
Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes
and events with a new perspective; old and new wounds, enduring
narratives, and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America
are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the
exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking
theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends,
with the "unmourned." It allows for an understanding of America as
fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these
essays challenge the reader to think America anew.
How does viewing the American project through a theological lens
complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of
American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking
essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United
States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring
together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some
familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America.
Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes
and events with a new perspective; old and new wounds, enduring
narratives, and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America
are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the
exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking
theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends,
with the "unmourned." It allows for an understanding of America as
fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these
essays challenge the reader to think America anew.
Fiction. Inertia is a force, a powerful force, but it's not the
only one. Courtney and Martin know all the words to all the songs
on the mix tape of their lives. They have the cynical in-jokes
down, the snide asides, the nonchalant pose. But beneath the
practiced facade of self-satisfying ennui, these kids are staring
down their futures, struggling in soured relationships with lovers
and families, and finding out just what it takes to break out, if
it's even possible. HERE IS HOW IT HAPPENS."Spencer Dew writes like
a quiet maniac who sees the violence under the fa ade of everyday
things, and the beauty under the violence. With X-ray vision and
fine-tuned prose, Dew discovers insights and absurdities in the
Americana of box stores, elite colleges, poetry students, buffet
restaurants, historic plaques, alternative radio, conspiracy
theorists, installation artists, and lug-headed drug
experimentalists. HERE IS HOW IT HAPPENS explores the place where
the heartland meets the rust belt meets the precarious bubble of
academia, and finds redemption in the purity of longing and the
shit coffee of an Amish country diner."--Karen Lillis"
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