Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter

Phillip Luke Sinitiere is a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston. 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."Christopher Cameron is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a founder of the African American Intellectual History Society, the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, and a coeditor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.

• Introduction, by Christopher Cameron and Phillip Luke SinitiereSection 1: Historical Foundations"A Secular Civil Rights Movement? How Black Power and Black Catholics Help Us Rethink the Religion in Black Lives Matter" by Matthew Cressler"Beyond De-Christianization: Rethinking the Religious Landscapes and Legacies of Black Power in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter" by Kerry Pimblott"MOVE, Mourning, and Memory" by Richard Kent Evans"Black Lives Matter and the New Materialism: Past Truths, Present Struggles, and Future Promises" by Carol Wayne White"The Faith of the Future: Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism" by Christopher Cameron Section 2: Contemporary Connections "Social Death, Excessive Movements, and the Matter of Blackness" by Joseph Winters"'A Song that Speaks the Language of the Times': Muslim and Christian Homiletic Responses to #BlackLivesMatter and the Need for a Theology of Admonition" by Marjorie Corbman"'Islam Is Black Lives Matter': The Role of Gender and Religion in Muslim Women's BLM Activism" by Iman AbdoulKarim"The Need for a Bulletproof Black Man: Luke Cage and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Religion in Black Communities" by Alex Stucky"The Sounds of Hope: Black Humanism, Deep Democracy, and Black Lives Matter" by Alexandra Hartmann"Black Lives Matter and American Evangelicalism: Conflict and Consonance in History and Culture" by Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter offers fresh perspectives on religious ideas and practices informing Black Lives Matter and contemporary politics, as well as posits novel understandings of race, religion, and politics in the United States in the twenty-first century."—Corey Walker, Wake Forest University