Ebook: Race and secularism in America

White supremacy and black insurgency as political theology -- Secular compared to what? toward ad history of the trope of black sacred/secular fluidity -- Slaves, slavery, and the secular age : or, tales of haunted scholars, liberating prisons, exorcised divinities, and immanent devils -- "Welcome back to the living" " resurrections of Martin Luther King Jr. in a secular age -- Overlooking race and secularism in Muslim Philadelphia -- Two ways of looking at an Invisible Man : race, the secular, and Ralph Ellison's invisible theology -- Secular coloniality : the afterlife of religious and racial tropes -- Binding landscapes : securlarism, race, and the spatial modern -- James Baldwin and a theology of justice in a secular age.;This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for change.