The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress by Finley, Stephen C.

The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474473705)

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The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress by Finley, Stephen C.

The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

$130.00
The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress by Finley, Stephen C.

The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation. They uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots and the evangelical Christian community's uncritical support for Trump, this collection argues that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.

Author: Stephen C. Finley
ISBN-10: 1474473709
ISBN-13: 9781474473705
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d

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Choice 07/01/2021
By Stephen C. Finley
By Stephen C. Finley
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Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies and Director of the African & African American Studies Program at Louisiana State University. He is co-editor of authored Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"... (with Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page Jr, Brill, 2014) and author of the monograph, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam.

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (Duke University Press, 2023). He is co-editor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Lori Latrice Martin is Professor in the Department of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous scholarly works. Martin's most recent publications include South Baton Rouge, Black Asset Poverty and the Enduring Racial Divide, Color Struck and Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of American Public Schools.

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