The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America
Autor John Corriganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2023
The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory’s role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226827650
ISBN-10: 0226827658
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226827658
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
Introduction: Bad Memories
Chapter 1: Colonial Legacies
Chapter 2: Trauma
Chapter 3: Emotion
Chapter 4: Forgetting and Remembering
Chapter 5: Anxiety, Erasure, and Affect
Chapter 6: Race, Religion, and Nation
Conclusion: The Feeling of Forgetting
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Chapter 1: Colonial Legacies
Chapter 2: Trauma
Chapter 3: Emotion
Chapter 4: Forgetting and Remembering
Chapter 5: Anxiety, Erasure, and Affect
Chapter 6: Race, Religion, and Nation
Conclusion: The Feeling of Forgetting
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Recenzii
"A masterful analysis. . . . This is a truly innovative interdisciplinary review of scholarship in the fields of history, religious studies, psychology, literary studies, and sociology to understand the processes of memory and forgetting as communal strategies for grappling with trauma."
"A paradigm-shifting book, moving scholars away from viewing white Christian ideologies as the root of religioracial violence, and toward something more ingrained, and thus even more difficult to surface and contend with: the affectual results of Christian forgetting on victims and perpetrators of violence in American history. . . . 'Race, Religion, and Nation' [is] a chapter that will soon become canon in courses on race and religion in America."
"Corrigan's study ranges widely across a dizzying array of disciplines and subfields, including the study of emotion in both the humanities and the sciences, religious studies, trauma studies, memory studies, social neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, history, and more . . . Corrigan brings the reader to the perhaps surprising conclusion that affect, not ideology, is the driving force in white Christian nationalism."
"[Corrigan's] analysis reveals how emotional repression intertwines with political radicalism, offering fresh insight into the psychological mechanisms behind white Christian nationalism. Corrigan’s methodological strengths lie in his interdisciplinary approach, deftly integrating social neuroscience, anthropology, and religious studies. His nuanced exploration of collective memory and emotion creates a compelling framework for understanding racial and religious dynamics. . . . essential for academic audiences seeking to untangle the emotional and historical complexities of modern white Christian nationalism."
"With unabashed frankness and unrelenting truth-telling, Corrigan offers much-needed clarity to the ongoing attempts to account for enduring racism and religious hatred that too often portray the coexistence of Christianity and racism as an unfortunate contradiction or oversimplify the relationship between ideology and violence. A game-changing study."
“Corrigan draws on a lifetime of research and writing about religion, race, and violence to offer insights where others have shrugged with befuddlement. White racial anxiety, he argues, is a feeling produced by the unsuccessful labor of forgetting the violence inherent to chattel slavery and Native dispossession. The result is a charged meditation on religious whiteness in the United States.”
“Corrigan offers a nuanced look at America’s sorry history of racism, violence, and trauma from the colonial era to January 6 and beyond, taking on American Christianity’s proclivity for forgetting our society’s traumatic past. This is a wise and important book with the potential to reshape our national discourse."
“Through a sweeping critical review of interdisciplinary work on emotions, trauma, memory, and history, Corrigan carefully assembles a way to understand the intergenerational transmission of trauma among both victims and perpetrators of collective violence. A remarkable and courageous book.”