The Religion of White Rage : White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress / Lori Latrice Martin, Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. "The Souls of White Folk": Race, Affect, and Religion in the Religion of White Rage -- Part One White Religious Fervor, Civil Religion, and Contemporary American Politics -- ONE "Make America Great Again": Racial Pathology, White Consolidation, and Melancholia in Trump's America -- TWO You Will Not Replace Us! An Exploration of Religio-Racial Identity in White Nationalism -- THREE "I AM that I AM": The Religion of White Rage, Great Migration Detroit, and the Ford Motor Company -- FOUR American (Un)Civil Religion, the Defense of the White Worker, and Responses to NFL Protests -- FIVE The Color of Belief: Black Social Christianity, White Evangelicalism, and Redbaiting the Religious Culture of the CIO in the Postwar South -- SIX Constitutional Whiteness: Class, Narcissism, and the Source of White Rage -- Part Two White Religious Fervor, Religious Ideology, and White Identity -- SEVEN KKK Christology: A Brief on White Class Insecurity -- EIGHT Black People and White Mormon Rage: Examining Race, Religion, and Politics in Zion -- NINE Anatomizing White Rage: "Race is My Religion!" and "White Genocide" -- TEN Exorcising Blackness: Calling the Cops as an Affective Performance of Gender -- ELEVEN White Power Barbie and Other Figures of the Angry White Woman -- TWELVE Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites -- THIRTEEN The Religions of Black Resistance and White Rage: Interpenetrative Religious Practice in the 1963 Civil Rights Struggle in Danville, Virginia -- CONCLUSION Race, Religion, and Labor Studies: The Way Forward -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and presentArgues that religion and race - not economics - are the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the USAMakes key interventions in labour studies and American religious studies Examines the mythological and sociological construct of the 'white labourer' Uncovers the sociological and religious origins of white anxiety Uses the perspectives of theory and method in religious studies, affect studies and critical whiteness studies Shows that white rage is a phenomenon that moves in and through the institutional legitimation of certain forms of white expression and engagement, both 'liberal' and 'conservative' This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation. They uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots and the evangelical Christian community's uncritical support for Trump, this collection argues that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.

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