Religion and US empire : critical new histories / edited by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson.

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"This book shows how imperialism molded American religion-both the category of religion and the traditions designated as religions-and reveals the multifaceted roles of American religions in structuring, enabling, surviving, and resisting the U.S. Empire"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:North American religions.
Other Authors: Wenger, Tisa Joy, 1969- (Editor)
Johnson, Sylvester A., 1972- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Series:North American religions.
Subjects:
United States > Religion.
Imperialism.
Religion and politics > United States.
États-Unis > Religion.
Impérialisme.
Religion et politique > États-Unis.
RELIGION / General.
Religion.
Religion and politics.
United States.
Physical Description:viii, 369 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Formations: Slavery, settlers, and salvation
  • Rebellion and religion: slavery and empire in early America / Katharine Gerbner
  • Making religion in Michilimackinac: settler secularism and US empire / Tisa Wegner
  • A colony called freedom: religion, empire, and Black Christian settlers / Sylvester A. Johnson
  • Part II. Biopolitics: imperial classification, sentimental reform, and indigenous tactics of survival
  • Religion on the brink: settler-colonial knowledge production in the US Census / Sarah Dees
  • Imperial intersections: social surveys, sentimental biopolitics, and religion at Hull House / Cara Lea Burnidge
  • "The call it Ghost Dance...but it's Feather Dance": indigenous histories in the study of religion and US empire / Jennifer Grabe
  • Part III. Entanglements: global networks, Christian missions, and the racial projects of US empire
  • "The same blood as we in America": industrial schooling and American empire / Kaine Walther
  • Black spiritual protest in global imperial contexts 1893-1920 / Heather D. Curtis
  • An Evangelical occupation: the racial and imperial politics of US Protestant missions in the Dominican Republic / Christina C. Davidson
  • Part IV. Dialetics: wastelanding, weaponry, and capitalist exculsions
  • The trouble of an Indian Diocese: Catholic priests and sexual abuse in colonized places / Kathleen Holscher
  • Fire from heaven: napalm, the drone, and Evangelical territoriality in the age of empire / Jonathan Ebel
  • American Islam, settler colonialism, and democratic empires in the work of Robert D. Crane / Zareena A. Greewal and Brennan McDaniel
  • Decolonization™ / Lucia Hulsether.