{"title":"RELG 399","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"african-american-religions-1500-2000-by-sylvester-johnson","title":"AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIONS 1500-2000 by Sylvester Johnson","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor RELG 399: Race and Religion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the relationship between empire and democratic freedom. Rather than treating freedom and its others (colonialism, slavery, and racism) as opposites, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets multiple periods of Black religious history to discern how Atlantic empires (particularly that of the United States) simultaneously enabled the emergence of particular forms of religious experience and freedom movements as well as disturbing patterns of violent domination. Johnson explains theories of matter and spirit that shaped early indigenous religious movements in Africa, Black political religion responding to the American racial state, the creation of Liberia, and FBI repression of Black religious movements in the twentieth century. By combining historical methods with theoretical analysis, Johnson explains the seeming contradictions that have shaped Black religions in the modern era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003eISBN-13: ‎ 978-0521157001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Liberation is Lit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48990335205684,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/2939\/9092\/files\/61arGXg_GSS._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767714538"},{"product_id":"culture-and-redemption-by-tracy-fessenden","title":"CULTURE AND REDEMPTION by Tracy Fessenden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor RELG 399: Race and Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCulture and Redemption\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCulture and Redemption\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's \"secular\" public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining American legal cases, children's books, sermons, and polemics together with popular and classic works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCulture and Redemption\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows how the vaunted secularization of American culture proceeds not as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but instead through concerted attempts to render dominant forms of Protestant identity continuous with democratic, civil identity. Fessenden shows this process to be thoroughly implicated, moreover, in practices of often-violent exclusion that go to the making of national culture: Indian removals, forced acculturations of religious and other minorities, internal and external colonizations, and exacting constructions of sex and gender. Her new readings of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Gilman, Fitzgerald, and others who address themselves to these dynamics in intricate and often unexpected ways advance a major reinterpretation of American writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‎ 978-0691049632\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberation is Lit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48990335598900,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/2939\/9092\/files\/817rEM5XVcL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767714737"},{"product_id":"terrorist-assemblages-by-jasbir-puar","title":"TERRORIST ASSEMBLAGES by Jasbir Puar","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor RELG 399: Race and Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen years on, Jasbir K. 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Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S. nation-state has long relied on are now accompanied by what Puar calls homonationalism—a fusing of homosexuality to U.S. pro-war, pro-imperialist agendas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e978-0822371502\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberation is Lit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48990337007924,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/2939\/9092\/files\/91hxKMVXqhL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767715124"}],"url":"https:\/\/liberationislit.com\/collections\/relg-399.oembed","provider":"Liberation is Lit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}