Carter, associate professor of theology and black church studies, and Lian, professor of world Christianity, were among the six scholars chosen by the Association of . J. Kameron Carter's recent talk at the Katz Center evoked a great deal of discussion and push-back from some of his listeners. But many also hope for the vision of reconciliation that Obama offers, Carter says. In that transformation, Christian anti-Judaism biologized itself so as to racialize itself. 0000021482 00000 n 1990. 2019 Duke University Press. Duke Divinity School Professors J. Kameron Carter and Xi Lian have been named Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2015-16.The two were selected for a year-long fellowship to conduct creative and innovative theological research. J. Kameron Carter, PhD Co-Director of the Center for Religion and the Human Professor of Religious Studies with appointments in the English, Gender Studies, the African American and African Diaspora Studies Departments Indiana University, Bloomington jkcarte@indiana.edu PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Jan. 2021 - Present BX:\]QBi#j6?Y,+,6\\s}Zs}'`Z+L! Also Available As: Ebook. Special Issue Editor: J. Kameron Carter. He hopes to continue using these techniques and expand their use in future classes. For example, in 2008 he published a book titled Race: A Theological Account in which he examined how discourses of Christian theology worked with Enlightenment philosophical discourses of reason to shape our current racial common sense or how we have come to understand ourselves as raced beings. In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. 26 0 obj <> endobj University of Virginia, I'm a Professor of Religious Studies, English, and African American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Complementing the just finished book manuscript on white supremacy as political theology, this nearly completed manuscript considers an alternative version or genre of the sacred, one uncoupled from the paradigm of nation-states and thus the racially gendered logics of sovereignty. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to, Being Ocean as Praxis: Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences, Teresa de Jess: The Contemplative in Action, American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism, I Can Believe Breaking the Circuits of Interpellation in von Triers Breaking the Waves, The Royal Remains The Peoples Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, Come on Kid, Lets Go Get the Thing The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black/Human. startxref More recently, Carter has just finished a book manuscript that interprets white supremacy not simply as vile individual acts; rather, Carter brings white supremacy, if not whiteness as such, into view as a planetary structure and practice of political theology. My website (where youre at right now) is being rebuilt. He explores how this was a profound wrong-turn whose consequences are baked into the very fabric of what we call the modern world and Western democratic societies. Cirriculum Vitae J. Kameron Carter J. Kameron Carter, PhD Co-Director of the Center for Religion and the Human Professor of Religious Studies with appointments in the English, Gender Studies, . Through engagement with figures as disparate in outlook and as varied across the historical landscape as Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglass, Jarena Lee, Michel Foucault, Cornel West, Albert Raboteau, Charles Long, James Cone, Irenaeus of Lyons, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor, Carter reorients the whole of Christian theology, bringing it into the twenty-first century. Nothing, says Michael Munger, chair of the Department of Political Science. Copy and paste the URL below to share this page. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7370991. For more from the column, click here. 0000023473 00000 n Up to 1,400 students slept on . I've just finished a 17 year stretch of teaching at Duke University as Associate Professor of Theology, English and Africana Studies in the Divinity School with appointments in the English Department and the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department. Buy. J. Kameron Carter reformulates modern religion as key to understanding the inseparability of the polity and the colony, of liberty and necessity, and of value and violence. -- There are going to be a sizable number of whites who will vote for Obama, and combined with the black vote, he will win the primary. 0000023237 00000 n Dallas Theological Seminary, In this Issue. 114 South Buchanan Boulevard It was Christ's unique human-divine personage that integrated gentiles into Israel's covenant life with God. "I think these patterns are legitimate issues to raise in the campaign, as the Clinton camp has subtly and not-so-subtly done," says Kerry L. Haynie, an associate professor of political science. J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology, English, and Africana Studies at Duke University and Duke Divinity School. The U.S. has huge corporate tax giveaways built into our tax codes, in the form of oil depletion allowances and accelerated depreciation on capital stock in drilling and exploration. Tuesday, March 12 ~ J. Kameron Carter Wednesday, March 13 ~ Cristina Comer Thursday, March 14 ~ Alma Jones Friday, March 15 ~ Onye Akwari and Anne Micheaux Akwari Carter's claim is that Christian theology, and the signal transformation it (along with Christianity) underwent, is at the heart of these legacies. Table of Contents Back to Top Acknowledgments xi An Anarchic Introduction (Antiblackness as Religion) 1 1. d\)[ 2[ Z)Qzi= ONpW2R-hW>#BX[3A~g vKvK$rRE}i@HAEd${xRT43K:mzVTH=N6K3:p= N#~XE 97AuJ%g H Hes also finalizing the manuscript of a book titled Black Rapture: An Ante-American Poetics. They will appear on camera on the Duke campus and be interviewed by ABC News hosts using cell phones. Professor Carter's bookRace: A Theological Accountappeared in 2008 (New York: Oxford UP). For more from Jentleson's column, click here. 0000000016 00000 n His interventions in this ambitious, rich, and imaginative book have the power to change the study of religion as a whole and in tremendously salutary, necessary ways. Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion, The Anarchy of Black Religion is a pivotal contribution to fostering an imagination other than the one that has been furthered in the age of modernity. He is the editor ofReligion and the Future of Blackness(aspecial issue ofSouth Atlantic Quarterly, 2013) and presented the Warfield Lectures (a set of six lectures) at Princeton Theological Seminary (2016) under the title Dark Church: Experiments in Black Assembly. Driving his work are questions pertaining to the theory and practice of blackness, indeed, of blackness as an alternate "pedagogy of the sacred" that the black church (at its best) expresses. We welcome your comments and suggestions! E2IB W/(Z/BVL WKbZVmyL@~|n$3Pa ZB:6/]$O 0000026845 00000 n Teagarden designed her major to focus on human rights. In the Democratic primary, Duke political scientist David Rohde says Obama is struggling in part because of the "warm memories of former President Bill Clinton.". He is the author of Race: A Theological Account. Leanora Minai of OCS is the editor of the 'Working@Duke' edition. Working in black studies (African American and African Diaspora studies), using theological and religious studies concepts, critical theory, and increasingly poetry in doing so. Religion and the Future of Blackness. (South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2013). J. 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Haynie is co-director of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. Phone (888) 651-0122. International +1 (919) 688-5134. Campus Box 90403 A Mystic Song, is presently in production and scheduled for publication in 2023 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). We need to shift from a military to a diplomatic surge," Jentleson wrote in a column in The News and Observer. All rights reserved. "What we're witnessing is a generation that's lived into the benefits of the work carried out by the previous generation, carrying the mantle forward," Carter says. With Cervenak, hes the editor of a Duke University Press book series, The Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study. A series edited by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak. "I don't think she's going to do that. Sarah Jane Cervenak . 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B Durham, NC 27701 USA. Prof. Carter teaches courses in both theology and black church studies. "I don't know how he does that," Haynie told The Fayetteville Observer. In fact, there is nothing anyone should do.". J. Kameron Carter, associate professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, told The News and Observer that many African-Americans grew up listening to fiery denunciations common in the black church. EISSN 1527-8026. In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. 0000049817 00000 n SubjectsReligious Studies, Theory and Philosophy > Critical Theory, African American Studies and Black Diaspora, J. The Duke Vigil was a silent demonstration at Duke University, April 5-11, 1968, following the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King. His work focuses on questions of Blackness, empire and ecology as matters of political theology, and the sacred. 0000011385 00000 n The Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries presented a Faculty Bookwatch panel on J. Kameron Carter's Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008) on February 4, 2009. Search for other works by this author on: This Site. Hardcover. Duke University, The Divinity School, the Graduate Faculty of Religion, and the English Department 2008 - 2016 Associate Professor Carters bookRace: A Theological Accountappeared in 2008 (New York: Oxford University Press). A seven-round event leaves plenty of options available, and history has shown that some will become stars, like Kurt . If youd like to be notified when my website is live and when my new books become available, please signup for email notification and for my newsletter by clicking on the button below. He has two books near completion:Gods Property: Blacknessand theProblemof SovereigntyandPostracial Blues: Religion and the Twenty-First Century Color Line. According to Haynie, two historical patterns illustrate how and why race matters in the 2008 presidential election. 0000001819 00000 n Sarah Jane Cervenak. And rightly so. ISSN 0038-2876. Churchical, ecumenical blackness is his object of study. What I study and think about is black social life as it intersects the sacred, as the deviant scene of alternative practices of the sacred. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Duke Divinity School. Additionally, in 2013 he edited a special issue of the journal South Atlantic Quarterly called Religion and the Future of Blackness. Panelists included Elizabeth Clark (Religious Studies, Duke University), Mary McClintock Fulkerson (Theology, Duke Divinity School), Ken Surin (Literature, Duke University), and Maurice Wallace (English, Duke University). Several Duke faculty members said Sen. Obama was hurt politically by both the comments about the United States made by his former pastor and Wright's efforts last week to defend those comments. J. Kameron Carter works at the intersection of questions of race and the current ecological ravaging of the earth. I'm not a fan of gas taxes, or other excise taxes as a way of coercing behavior the government happens to admire. Working within black (religious) studies, this article considers the sacred as proximately black, where the sacred here signals that frenzied surplus whose sociopoetic force discloses another horizon of existence beyond the terms of order. Durham, NC 27708Directions & Parking. I also co-direct Indiana University's Center for Religion and the Human. We need to react quickly, not slow things down by forcing prices downward. Without representation and thus in rapture from the terms of order, from politicalitys god terms, the sacred registers as murmur or tremor, a lyric landscape of bass (and base) insubordination exceeding all worlding. This article approaches what hovers beyond and beneath, ethereally above or as a kind of wormhole through the political as we know it, for it was this beyond or more-than that in subversion of constituted order, arguably, aroused the white nationalist rally in the first place as a violent secondary, counterrevolutionary reaction. J. Kameron Carter Professor, Religious Studies Co-Director, Center for Religion and the Human jkcarte@indiana.edu SY 329 Office Hours Education Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2001 M.Th., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1995 B.A., Temple University, 1990 Resume/CV About J. Kameron Carter Titled The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric (with Yale University Press), this book explores white identity not just, for example, with regard to Christian Nationalism or white evangelicalism, but regarding whiteness as such, right, left, and center as a form of religion. But I'm also opposed, for the same reasons, to subsidies that keep gas prices artificially low, and enable behavior we abhor. The next president, he says, will have to turn to diplomacy to build a more solid foundation for rebuilding Iraqi society. 1 . By J. Kameron Carter . Explore how climate education spans disciplines and departments across Duke. Teagarden, a Durham native, volunteered for the Obama campaign in both North and South Carolina. Published: 02 September 2008. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to . 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