Racism and the Weakness of Christian Identity: Religious Autoimmunity

ISBN-13: 9781032175478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

David Kline

Opis

Through a systems theoretical and deconstructive account of religion and the political theology of St. Paul, this book traces how the racism and violence of modern Western Christianity is a symptom of its failure to secure its own myth of sovereignty within a complex world of plurality.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Religion, Christian Identity, and Political Theology; 1 Genre, System, Observation: Sylvia Wynter and Niklas Luhmann on Autopoiesis and Religion; 2 Immunity and Autoimmunity: The Two Sources of Religion; 3 Becoming Christian: Pauline Political Theology and the Apparatus of Christian Identity; Part Two: Apparatuses; 4 Apparatus One: Spanish Colonialism and Non-Christian Bodies as Theo-Juridical Problems; 5 Apparatus Two: Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in Spanish and English Colonialism; 6 Apparatus Three: Race and Biopolitical Intensification in America; Part Three: Thinking Resistance; 7 Being’s Salvation: Political Ontology, Apocalyptic Theology, and the Apparatus; 8 The Fugitive and the Katechon: Blackness and Pragmatics

　

O autorze

David Kline is a Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His academic specialties are religion and race in the Americas, critical race theory, critical theory, and political theology. He is the co-author of Embodiment and Black Religion (2017)