Religion in the Age of Obama

Juan M. Floyd-Thomas is Associate Professor of African American Religious History in the Vanderbilt Divinity School and The Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University, USA.Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University, USA.

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Faith in Public1. Religion (and Race) Problems on the Way to the White House: An Analysis of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama’s ‘Faith’ Speeches, Max Mueller (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)2. Political Spirituality, or The Oprahfication of Obama, Kathryn Lofton (Yale University, USA)3. A Muslim in the White House? Race, Islam, and the Presidency of Barack Obama, Sylvester A. Johnson (Virginia Tech, USA)4. Towards a ‘Culture of Mercy’: Augustine, Pope Francis, and the Transformation of Moral Imagination, Melanie Webb (Villanova University, USA)Part Two: The Politics of Moral Vision5. The Welfare of Faith, Alison Collis Greene (Mississippi State University, USA)6. The Mystification of Capitalism and the Mis-direction of White Male Anger, Rebecca Todd Peters (Elon University, USA)7. Costs of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby’s Sincerely-Held Beliefs, Megan Goodwin (Northeastern University, USA)8. Black Prophetic Discourse and Just War Theory in the Age of Obama, Juan Floyd-Thomas (Vanderbilt University, USA)Part Three: On Race/ing Belief9. When White is the ‘New Black’: Religious Populism in the Age of Obama, Keri Day (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)10. In the Wake of Obama’s Hope: Thoughts on Black Lives Matter, Moralism, and Re-Imagining Race Struggle, Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA)11. Deporter-in-Chief: Why Reject Christianity Hospitality?, Miguel A. De La Torre (Iliff School of Theology, USA)12. ‘Now.Next’: Confronting the Past and Shaping the Future, Sharon Welch (Institute for Humanist Studies, USA)BibliographyIndex

…This book, which moves deftly between overt religious expression and covert religious ideology, is not only a crucial addition to the scholarship on the Obama years but also to the field of religion and politics.