Provides a much-needed humanities-based analysis and description of humanism in relation to theses cultural markers. Whereas most existing analysis attempts to explain humanism through the natural and social sciences (the "what" of life), Anthony B. Pinn explores humanism in rel…
Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. 'Modern Religion, Modern Race' argues that because the concepts of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of rethinking what it means to be human, we cannot simply will ourselv…
Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. 'Modern Religion, Modern Race' argues that because the concepts of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of rethinking what it means to be human, we cannot simply will ourselv…
Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. Modern Religion, Modern Race argues that because the concepts of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of rethinking what it means to be human, we cannot simply will ourselves…
Race and political theology
"American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their charac…
"American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their charac…
"American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their charac…
"American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their charac…
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between "civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far," the words would hardl…
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between "civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far," the words would hardl…
Introduction: Diaspora, indigeneity, and citizenship after DNA -- Producing Lemba archives, becoming genetic Jews -- Genetic diaspora -- Postapartheid citizenship and the limits of genetic evidence -- Ancestry, ancestors, and contested kinship after DNA -- Locating Lemba heritag…
Introduction: Diaspora, indigeneity, and citizenship after DNA -- Producing Lemba archives, becoming genetic Jews -- Genetic diaspora -- Postapartheid citizenship and the limits of genetic evidence -- Ancestry, ancestors, and contested kinship after DNA -- Locating Lemba heritag…
"GENETIC AFTERLIVES is an ethnography of how Lemba people in South Africa manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. To ask who and what the Lemba people are is to cut to the central questions anthropologi…