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ISBN10: 0199829861, ISBN13: 9780199829866, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. W. 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 earto 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 AfricanAmerican 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 atthe 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 rel ...
Paperback / softback. New. Jonathon 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. ISBN 0199829861 9780199829866 [GB]
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ISBN10: 0199829861, ISBN13: 9780199829866, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 8/12/2011] Softcover Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois 0.61 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 0199829861, ISBN13: 9780199829866, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2011]
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