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

Stephen C. Finley

ISBN 10: 1474473709 / ISBN 13: 9781474473705

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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• Title: The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474473709
• ISBN 13: 9781474473705
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 185 grams

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Synopsis

Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and present Argues that religion and race - not economics - are the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the USA Makes key interventions in labour studies and American religious studies Examines the mythological and sociological construct of the 'white labourer' Uncovers the sociological and religious origins of white anxiety Uses the perspectives of theory and method in religious studies, affect studies and critical whiteness studies Shows that white rage is a phenomenon that moves in and through the institutional legitimation of certain forms of white expression and engagement, both 'liberal' and 'conservative' 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.

About the Authors

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.