Description: Divine Discontent Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois Author(s): Jonathon S. Kahn Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780199829866, 978-0199829866 Synopsis W. E. B. Du Bois is an improbable candidate for a project in religion. His skepticism of and, even, hostility toward religion is readily established and canonically accepted. Indeed, he spent his career rejecting normative religious commitments to institutions and supernatural beliefs. In this book, Jonathon Kahn offers a fresh and controversial reading of Du Bois that seeks to overturn this view. Kahn contends that the standard treatment of Du Bois turns a deaf ear to his writings. For if we're open to their religious timbre, those writings-from his epoch-making The Souls of Black Folk to his unstudied series of parables that depict the lynching of an African American Christ-reveal a virtual obsession with religion. Du Bois's moral, literary, and political imagination is inhabited by religious rhetoric, concepts and stories. Divine Discontent recovers and introduces readers to the remarkably complex and varied religious world in Du Bois's writings. It's a world of sermons, of religious virtues such as sacrifice and piety, of jeremiads that fight for a black American nation within the larger nation. Unlike other African American religious voices at the time, however, Du Bois's religious orientation is distinctly heterodox-it exists outside the bounds of institutional Christianity. Kahn shows how Du Bois self-consciously marshals religious rhetoric, concepts, typologies, narratives, virtues, and moods in order to challenge traditional Christian worldview in which events function to confirm a divine order. Du Bois's antimetaphysical religious voice, he argues, places him firmly in the American tradition of pragmatic religious naturalism typified by William James. This innovative reading of Du Bois should appeal to scholars of American religion, intellectual history, African American Studies, and philosophy of religion.
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Book Title: Divine Discontent
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Divine Discontent: the Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 292 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Jonathon S. Kahn
Subject Area: Citizenship
Item Width: 157 mm
Format: Paperback
