Thinking Philosophically About the Black Church

Authors

Jack Russell Weinstein, University of North DakotaFollow
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University

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Description

People have been thinking a lot about race lately and we’ve also been thinking about the role of religion in elections. What we haven’t been doing is examining what happens when the two intersect. On the next episode of Why? we are going to do just this, examining specifically the role of the church in the lives, politics, and self-image of the African-American community (and everyone else).

J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University. He works in black studies (African American and African Diaspora studies), using theological and religious studies concepts, critical theory, and increasingly poetry in doing so. His Race: A Theological Account appeared in 2008 (New York: Oxford UP). He is the editor of Religion and the Future of Blackness (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2013).

Publication Date

1-8-2017

Publisher

Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

City

Grand Forks, ND

Keywords

African American churches ; Elections--Religious aspects ; Blacks--Race identity--United States ; Blacks--United States--Religion

Disciplines

Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Weinstein, Jack Russell and Carter, J. Kameron, "Thinking Philosophically About the Black Church" (2017). Why? Radio Podcast Archive. 39.
https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/39