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 sustain 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.
Cuprins
Introduction
Christopher Cameron & Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Part One: Historical Foundations
1. A Secular Civil Rights Movement?: How Black Power and Black Catholics Help Us Rethink the Religion in Black Lives Matter
Matthew J. Cressler
2. Beyond
De-Christianization: Rethinking the Religious Landscapes and Legacies of Black Power in the Age of #Black Lives Matter
Kerry Pimblott
3. MOVE, Mourning, and Memory
Richard Kent Evans
4. Black Lives Matter and the New Materialism: Past Truths, Present Struggles, and Future Promises
Carol Wayne White
5. The Faith of the Future: Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism
Christopher Cameron
Part Two: Contemporary Connections
6. Death, Spirituality, and the Matter of Blackness
Joseph Winters
7. ‘A Song That Speaks the Language of the Times: Muslim and Christian Homiletic Responses to the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Need for a Spiritual Vocabulary of Admonition
Marjorie Corbman
8. ‘Islam Is Black Lives Matter: The Role of Gender and Religion in Muslim Women’s BLM Activism
Iman Abdoul Karim
9. The Need for a Bulletproof Black Man:
Luke Cage and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Religion in Black Communities
Alex Stucky
10. The Sounds of Hope: Black Humanism, Deep Democracy, and Black Lives Matter
Alexandra Hartmann
11. Black Lives Matter and American Evangelicalism: Conflict and Consonance in History and Culture
Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Index
Despre autor
Phillip Luke Sinitiere is a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston. He is also the scholar in residence at the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. He is the author of Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity and the coeditor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History and Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith.
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