Feeling of Forgetting - Christianity, Race, and Violence in America

Informationen zum Autor John Corrigan is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and professor of history at Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering , also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext "The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing cycles of white violence toward people of color. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan trains our attention on an underexamined aspect of this historical trauma: the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing the practices of remembering and forgetting in the Christian tradition, Corrigan shows how experiences of racial violence and efforts, on the part of white Americans, to deliberately forget race are drivers of Christian nationalism and white supremacy. White trauma, Corrigan says, is detectable as an underground river in American culture. Sometimes it is powerfully joined with evangelical Christianity and surfaces at times in acts of brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. The Feeling of Forgetting is an attempt to understand how that process occurs, and how it is braided with the trauma of victims, so that we might be better positioned to address both"--

Product details

• Authors: John Corrigan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780226827636
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82763-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice