Divine discontent : the religious imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois
Kahn, Jonathon SamuelAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
Kahn contends that the standard treatment of Du Bois turns a deaf ear to the religious timbre of his writings & that Du Bois's moral, literary, & political imagination was inhabited by religious rhetoric, concepts & stories. This text recovers the remarkably complex and varied religious world in Du Bois's writings.
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Kahn contends that the standard treatment of Du Bois turns a deaf ear to the religious timbre of his writings & that Du Bois's moral, literary, & political imagination was inhabited by religious rhetoric, concepts & stories. This text recovers the remarkably complex and varied religious world in Du Bois's writings.
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Introduction : Divine discontent as religious faith -- What is pragmatic religious naturalism, and what does it have to do with Du Bois? -- Pragmatic religious naturalism and the binding of The souls of Black folk -- "Love for these people" : racial piety as religious devotion -- Rewriting the American jeremiad : on pluralism, Black nationalism, and a new America -- "Behold the sign of salvation-a noosed rope" : the promise and perils of Du Bois's economies of sacrifice -- Conclusion : Beyond Du Bois : toward a tradition of African American pragmatic religious naturalism.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Naturalism
Pragmatism
Natural theology
African Americans
Race relations
Ethnic & Race Studies
Gender & Ethnic Studies
Social Sciences