Religion, Race and Racism - Transnational Conversations: Christianity and Whiteness in America: From Past to Present

11th March, 2021 @ 15:30 - 16:30

Webinar

Overview

This is the second webinar in the Seminar Series: Religion, Race and Racism - Transnational Conversations. The topic is 'Christianity and Whiteness in America: From Past to Present'.

This event will take place on 11 March 2021 at 3.30pm.

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Series description:

From the rise of white Christian nationalism in the United States to anti-immigration rhetoric against 'Muslim refugees' in Europe, the imbrication of race, racism and religion extends across geographic locations, social settings, and political contexts. As xenophobia and discrimination surge around the globe, religion and race are often conflated in everyday violence, yet their relationship is undertheorised in scholarly research. While scholars of religion and critical race theorists are rarely in conversation about these intersections, recent works have pushed for more analysis of the race-religion interplay. Inspired by pioneering scholarship such as Kathryn Gin Lum, Nasar Meer, and Esra Özyürek, this Seminar Series Religion, Race and Racism - Transnational Conversations, brings emerging and senior scholars into conversation. In doing so, we reject a single-issue approach to the study of key social and political events, and push for an intersectional approach to the study of race, racism and religion. Through ethnographic, sociological and historical case studies, the series engages with the following questions:

By facilitating conversations between leading scholars examining the relationship between race and religion, this series offers divergent perspectives, opposing views, and creative theorisations to offer fresh analytical tools for an urgent area of study.


Speaker bios:

Philip Gorski is a comparative-historical sociologist at Yale University, Department of Sociology. His research focuses on the interaction of religion and politics in early modern and modern Europe and North America. He is the author, most recently, of American Babylon: Democracy and Christianity Before and After Trump (Routledge 2020). With Sam Perry, he is currently completing a book titled White Christian Nationalism: A Primer.

Jemar Tisby is a public historian specialising in race, religion, politics and culture. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism and How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice. Mr Tisby is the CEO of The Witness Inc., an organisation dedicated to Black uplift from a Christian perspective.



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https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r99FPmIhTjCOuwLuI6c-dQ



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