Anarchy of Black Religion

J. Kameron Carter is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and is codirector of IU’s Center for Religion and the Human. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account.

• Acknowledgments  xiAn Anarchic Introduction (Antiblackness as Religion)  11. Black (Feminist) Anarchy  272. The Matter of Anarchy  473. Anarchy and the Fetish  634. The Anarchy of Black Religion  755. Anarchy Is a Poem, Is a Song . . .  106An Anarchic Coda (A Mystic Song)  132Notes  139Bibliography  171Index

“J. Kameron Carter’s claim that the modern western formulations of racial capitalism and religion go hand in hand renders it impossible to think the one without the other. His interventions in this ambitious, rich, and imaginative book have the power to change the study of religion as a whole and in tremendously salutary, necessary ways.” - Amy Hollywood, author of (Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion) "In our racially segregated world, this diffunity is crucial to explore, especially as a Christian. As Carter describes it, Christianity helped create a religiopolitical regime of antiblack exclusion and racial capitalist extraction. But with Carter, I too am dreaming of an alternative social order-one that is not predicated on exclusion and instead chooses to embrace difference and learn from Indigenous ways of living in harmony with all creatures." - Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo (Sojourners) "In many ways, [J. Kameron Carter's] book is a prayer that brings about a childlike sense of imagination. It becomes more than an intellectual work and something I view as deeply pastoral."- Jordan Burton (Presbyterian Outlook)