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OverviewContemporary debates on the role of religion in American public life ignore the overlap between religion and race in the formation of American democratic traditions and more often than not imagine democracy within the terrain of John Rawls's political liberalism. This kind of political liberalism, which focuses on political commitments at the expense of our religious beliefs, fosters the necessary conditions to open historically closed doors to black bodies, allows blacks to sit at the King's table and creates the necessary safeguards for black protest against discrimination within a constitutional democracy. By implication of its emphasis on rights and inclusion, political liberalism assumes that the presence of black bodies signifies the materialization of a robust American democracy. However, political liberalism discounts the historical role of religion in forming and fashioning the nation's construction of race. Tragic Soul-Life argues that the collision between religion and politics during U.S. slavery and segregation created the fragments from which emerged a firm but shifting moral disdain for blackness within the nation's collective moral imagination.The very problem political liberals want to avoid, our comprehensive philosophy, is central to solving the political and economic problems facing blacks. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Terrence L. Johnson (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Haverford College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780195383980ISBN 10: 0195383982 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 July 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Chapter One: Spiritual Isolation Chapter Two Haunting Echoes: Tragic Soul-Life and the Souls of Our Ancestors Chapter Three Spirit of Freedom Chapter Four The Dead, Death, and Dying Chapter Five The Spirit of Religion: Soul-Beauty and Human Strivings Chapter Six Ethics in a World of Bad Faith ConclusionReviews<br> Johnson's brilliant analysis of Du Bois's moral imagination as the basis for his dissection of anti-black racism in the U.S. is a major contribution to the scholarship on a major American intellectual. Scholars will find Johnson's meticulous inquiry into Du Bois's probing of 'the moral problem of blackness' nothing short of breath-taking. For feminist scholars, Johnson does not disappoint, because of his attention to the gendered aspects of Du Bois's creative and political writing. -Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-editor of Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies<p><br> Terrence Johnson brilliantly brings the epic thought of W.E. B. Du Bois and that of the liberal political philosopher John Rawls together not simply as comparison but as a productively critical tension through which to address the travails of American political life. In one direction, he examines the religious aspects of American life; in another, race; and even further, the rhetorical and critical forces of the tragic, an aesthetic-ethical category, with music. It is, indeed, a work on Du Bois and American religious and political thought that was screaming to have been written. --Lewis R. Gordon, author of An Introduction to Africana Philosophy<p><br> W.E.B. Du Bois remains one of the most insightfully gifted hermeneuticists of African American soul-life. Terrence Johnson's Tragic Soul-Life compels us to come to a new appreciation of Du Bois's philosophical explication of this soul-life as the basis for Johnson's passionate argument for interweaving religion, democracy, and morality in American life as a whole. -Lucius T. Outlaw, author of On Race and Philosophy<p><br> a stimulating treatise on American democracy through a Du Boisian lens ... Recommended. J.M Robinson, Choice Author InformationJohnson is an Assistant Professor or Religion at Haverford College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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