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Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account this book engages this problem for what it is: a theological problem. This book contends that the modern race question and the modern Jewish question are linked through the theological problem of the constitution of modernity's racial imagination, a constitution grounded in Christian supersessionism, or the effort to oust all things Jewish from the Western imaginary. Filling out this imagination is whiteness, nonwhiteness, and the negative anchor of the entire scheme, blackness. Beyond outlining this problem is the constructive task of reimagining Christian identity and theology beyond its tyrannical modern performance inside of whiteness. The book engages texts by patristic writers (like Maximus the Confessor), antellebum writers (like Frederick Douglass and Jarena Lee), and contemporary writers (like Michel Foucault)Read more...
Prologue: the argument at a glance --
Prelude on Christology and race: Irenaeus as anti-gnostic intellectual --
Part I. Dramatizing Race: A Theological Account of Modernity: --
1. The drama of race: toward a theological account of modernity --
2. The great drama of religion: modernity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race --
Part II. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies: --
3. Historicizing race: Albert J. Raboteau, religious history, and the ambiguities of blackness --
4. Theologizing race: James H. Cone, liberation and the theological meaning of blackness --
5. Signifying race: Charles H. Long and the opacity of blackness --
Interlude on Christology and race: Gregory of Nyssa as abolitionist intellectual --
Part III. Redirecting Race: Outlines of a Theological Program: --
6. The birth of Christ: a theological reading of Briton Hammon's 1760 Narrative --
7. The death of Christ: a theological reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative --
8. The spirit of Christ: a theological reading of the writings of Jarena Lee --
Postlude on Christology and race: Maximus the Confessor as anticolonialist intellectual --
Epilogue: the discourse of theology in the twenty-first century.
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J. Kameron Carter.
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Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account this book engages this problem for what it is: a theological problem. This book contends that the modern race question and the modern Jewish question are linked through the theological problem of the constitution of modernity's racial imagination, a constitution grounded in Christian supersessionism, or the effort to oust all things Jewish from the Western imaginary. Filling out this imagination is whiteness, nonwhiteness, and the negative anchor of the entire scheme, blackness. Beyond outlining this problem is the constructive task of reimagining Christian identity and theology beyond its tyrannical modern performance inside of whiteness. The book engages texts by patristic writers (like Maximus the Confessor), antellebum writers (like Frederick Douglass and Jarena Lee), and contemporary writers (like Michel Foucault)
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An intellectual tour de force! This book demonstrates great intellectual range and theological imagination; it should be read by all students of theology, religious studies and African American religion and history. I have nothing but praise for this work by a young African American scholar who must be reckoned with. * James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary * Jay Kameron Carter has written an extraordinarily insightful and sophisticated analysis of race as it has been constructed in modern philosophy and theology. His study reconceptualizes modernity and demonstrates the centrality of religion to any understanding of racism. * Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College * Carter's endeavor to lift up the principle of love as both theological and moral virtue has important implications for theological and ethical discourse in teh 21st century. ...A great book by any standard. Its breadth adn depth are impressive beyond measure. * Christian Century * J. Kameron Carter's Race: A Theological Account breaks new ground in contemporary theology... Carter's book has already spurred a rush of interest in Christology and race in many different theological circles. Because of its provocation, its clarity, and its comprehensiveness, Race: A Theological Account will be a seminal text in Christian theological discourse for many years to come. * Books & Culture * This is an amazing book: in scope, scholarship, audacity, and significance. Carter takes on no less than the enitre Western philosophical, political and theological tradition in offering a Christian analysis of race, religion, and their critically bodied intersections. Painstakingly unfolding a thesis as simple as it is breathtaking, Carter shows how supersessionism finds its final resting place in modernity's hegemony of whiteness. * Religious Studies Review *Read more...
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