LEADER 04813nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910461237103321 005 20210108014758.0 010 $a1-283-12934-5 010 $a9786613129345 010 $a0-19-973660-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093807 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087576 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522079 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522079 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528776 035 $a(PQKB)11215623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3054195 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093807 100 $a20110708d2011 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDivine discontent$b[electronic resource] $ethe religious imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois /$fJonathon S. Kahn 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-982986-1 327 $aIntroduction: Divine Discontent as Religious Faith 1: What is Pragmatic Religious Naturalism and What Does It Have to Do with Du Bois? 2: Pragmatic Religious Naturalism and the Binding of The Souls of Black Folk 3: ''Love For These People'': Racial Piety as Religious Devotion 4: Rewriting the American Jeremiad: On Pluralism, Black Nationalism, and a New America 5: ''Behold the Sign of Salvation-A Noosed Rope'': The Promise and Perils of Du Bois's Economies of Sacrifice Conclusion: Beyond Du Bois: Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism Notes Index 330 $aJonathon Kahn offers a fresh and controversial reading of W.E.B. Du Bois, showing how Du Bois consciously marshals religious rhetoric, concepts, typologies, narratives, virtues, and moods in order to challenge the traditional Christian worldview. 330 $bW. 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. 606 $aNaturalism$aSociety$2eflch$xReligious aspects 606 $aPragmatism 606 $aNatural theology 606 $aAfrican Americans$xReligion 606 $aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aNaturalism$aSociety.$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aPragmatism. 615 0$aNatural theology. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xReligion. 615 0$aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 676 $a303.484092 700 $aKahn$b Jonathon Samuel$0900194 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461237103321 996 $aDivine discontent$92011137 997 $aUNINA