Joshua Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Church of Christ |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7669-596X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany, 1890–1933 , by Todd H. Weir
In Paul Krannhals’s Das organische Weltbild (1928), the Baltic German philosopher distinguished his own right-wing, organicist philosophy from what he called ‘die “Weltanschauung” der Sozialdemokratie’. This baleful Weltanschauung, he argued, erred by virtue of its adoption of a ‘materialist, natural-scientific standpoint’. In making this remark, Krannhals was not thinking primarily of Marxism as the primary source of the social-democratic worldv…
A History of ‘Religious History’
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical history on the one hand; and an anticlerical or secular‐minded “anthropological” style of writi…
The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight B…
The Bond of Live Things Everywhere
Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity
Transatlantic Religion: Europe, America, and the Making of Modern Christianity. Annette Aubert and Zachary Purvis, eds. Brill's Series in Church History 82. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xii + 260 pp. $140. - Volume 77 Issue 1
Religious Vitality in Victorian London, by W.M. Jacob
Journal Article Religious Vitality in Victorian London, by W.M. Jacob Get access Religious Vitality in Victorian London, by W.M. Jacob (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. 348. £75). Joshua Bennett Joshua Bennett Lincoln College, Oxford, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7669-596X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 138, Issue 590-591, F…
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Response to Benedikt Stuchtey
Owed to the Tardigrade
Some of these microscopic invertebrates shrug off temperaturesof minus 272 Celsius, one degree warmer than absolute zero.Other species can endure powerful radiation and the vacuum of space.In 2007
John S. Haller Jr. Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
August Neander and the Religion of History in the Nineteenth-Century ‘Priesthood of Letters’
The Berlin ecclesiastical historian, August Neander (1789–1850), developed a religiously driven conception of history which excited contemporaries across the Protestant world. This article reconstructs the impetus which Neander gave to the creation of a religiously cosmopolitan historical imagination in Germany, Britain, and the United States. At a time when Hegelian and ‘scientific’ models of historical progress foretold a post-Christian future …
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure-the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark-in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden.…
A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories
Sylvia Wynter is an emeritus professor from Stanford University. She is also an essayist and creative writer whose work is deeply informed by the twentieth century Anti-Colonial Movement and the U
God and progress religion and history in British intellectual culture, 1845-1914: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914
Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, 'God and Progress' offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in 19th-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progressive ideas of history transformed British Protestant traditions, as religious debate, in turn, profoundly shaped Victorian ideas of history. It adopts a remarkably wide co…
Buck Theory
“Beyond the Vomiting Dark”: Toward a Black Hydropoetics
This That Life Beyond Your Own Life
This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Joshua Bennett (bio) I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it. —Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals And there are stars, but none of you, to spare. —June Jordan, "Sunflower Sonnet Number Two" As a boy, my favorite part of Sunday morning service was wat…
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Joshua Bennett (bio) Work might be better conceptualized by examining the range of work that African-American women actually perform. Work as alienated labor can be economically exploitative, physically demanding, and intellectually deadening—the type of work long associated with Black women's status as "mule." Alienated labor can be paid—the case of Black women in domestic service, those Black women working as d…
The Age of Athanasius
The publication of the Fourth Report of the Ritual Commission in 1870 occasioned intense debate over the position of the Athanasian Creed in the liturgy of the Church of England. This article reconstructs the course of that controversy, focusing particularly on the centrality of historical argument to the speeches, letters, and pamphlets in which critics and defenders of the formulary sought to stabilise Christian orthodoxy and define Anglican id…
Performances, Acknowledgments, and Dinner: Closing of the 40th Anniversary Celebration
Callaloo and Creative Writing
Callaloo and Creative Writing* Jacinda Townsend (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Gregory Pardlo (bio), John McCluskey Jr. (bio), Ishion Hutchinson (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), AH Jerriod Avant (bio), Stacy Parker Le Melle (bio), and Sebastian Matthews (bio) TOWNSEND: Hi and welcome to the panel Callaloo and Creative Writing. In 1997, Dr. Rowell formed the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. The workshop was first mounted at HBCUs like Morehouse, Spel…
Callaloo: A Forum for Academics and Creative Writers
Callaloo: A Forum for Academics and Creative Writers* Margo Natalie Crawford (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), and Jeremy M. Clark (bio) Brent Hayes Edwards was also a presenter on this panel. He provided Callaloo with an essay version of his remarks (see pgs. 67–71 in this issue). CRAWFORD: I am Margo Crawford and I am at Cornell University. I’m going to start today with a real focus on Charles Rowell’s i…
First Date, and: Agnosis
First Date, and: Agnosis Joshua Bennett (bio) FIRST DATE I take my cue from the blizzardmaking a name for itself outsidethe café window: give myself awayin shards. First, each hour spenton the threshing floor, so hungryfor the force of the Lordthere were days I dared not move, poringover ancient law until the walls bled.Then, the flashing image of Princetonin 1856, every slave a young man bringsto campus dressed in black, an extra pairof hands to…
Coming to the Clearing: Contemporary Black Poets in Conversation
Coming to the ClearingContemporary Black Poets in Conversation A. H. Jerriod Avant (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), Rickey Laurentiis (bio), Ladan Osman (bio), Safiya Sinclair (bio), Wendy S. Walters (bio), and Phillip B. Williams (bio) The following roundtable was conceived towards the end of outlining the general shape and tenor of an undeniable resurgence—what one might even call, however provocatively, a renaissance—regarding contemporary poetry …
August Neander and the Religion of History in the Nineteenth-Century ‘Priesthood of Letters’
The Berlin ecclesiastical historian, August Neander (1789–1850), developed a religiously driven conception of history which excited contemporaries across the Protestant world. This article reconstructs the impetus which Neander gave to the creation of a religiously cosmopolitan historical imagination in Germany, Britain, and the United States. At a time when Hegelian and ‘scientific’ models of historical progress foretold a post-Christian future …
A History of “Rationalism” in Victorian Britain
“Rationalism” became the subject of intense debate in nineteenth-century Britain. This article asks why this was so, by focusing on the usage and implications of the term in contemporary argument. Rationalism was successively defined and redefined in ways that reached to the heart of Victorian epistemological and religious discussion. By treating rationalism as a contextually specific term, and examining how its implications changed between the 1…
Yoke
Yoke Joshua Bennett (bio) 1 consider the yoke. its violent geometry.how wood and metal blur every border.grandpa Earl is tilling tobacco in the heavy dark,cuffed by the neck to a nameless mule.when he meets Lena, he will propose on the spot.repent of the land. head North to hunt for a fresh start. tobacco season came & fled.1933 paused to catch its breath and grandpa was gone.started a second family right down the block. called it providence. 2 m…
Flight/Plan: Erasure of The Black Law of Connecticut (1833)
Masquerade Ball
Masquerade Ball Joshua Bennett (bio) In The Lower Gym, we were coy,quick, and smooth as manta ray.Fridays after A Block, the unleash of a school belltaught us new ways to slingshot the body,drop our force-fields, play switchblade loose.Devin was automatic from three. Called his shotevery time. The Lower Gym was good for thatkind of wild magic. It loved to baptize black boysin salt, watch us run baselineto baseline until we shimmered. Devin was al…
A History of “Rationalism” in Victorian Britain
“Rationalism” became the subject of intense debate in nineteenth-century Britain. This article asks why this was so, by focusing on the usage and implications of the term in contemporary argument. Rationalism was successively defined and redefined in ways that reached to the heart of Victorian epistemological and religious discussion. By treating rationalism as a contextually specific term, and examining how its implications changed between the 1…
The British Luther Commemoration of 1883–1884 in European Context
In 1883 and early 1884 the controversial commemoration of the four-hundredth birthday of Martin Luther, celebrated in Germany and worldwide, captured much British public attention. The examination of this celebration offered here will improve current understanding of late Victorian religious controversies and indicate their continuing centrality to a range of cultural and historical debates in the period. The commemoration invigorated historic an…
Two Poems
In Defense of Passing Most of us call it cloaking, though the academic term for the practice slides just as smoothly off a teenager’s tongue: holographic deracination. Within days of wide-scale release, the Times will hail this device, its attendant social phenomena, as triumphs of modern technology, inevitable advance given the speed of post-racial desire, how expensive it is to purge the murk from an infant’s skin by most other means. The machi…
Two Poems
In Defense of Passing Most of us call it cloaking, though the academic term for the practice slides just as smoothly off a teenager’s tongue: holographic deracination. Within days of wide-scale release, the Times will hail this device, its attendant social phenomena, as triumphs of modern technology, inevitable advance given the speed of post-racial desire, how expensive it is to purge the murk from an infant’s skin by most other means. The machi…
First Date, and: Agnosis
First Date, and: Agnosis Joshua Bennett (bio) FIRST DATE I take my cue from the blizzardmaking a name for itself outsidethe café window: give myself awayin shards. First, each hour spenton the threshing floor, so hungryfor the force of the Lordthere were days I dared not move, poringover ancient law until the walls bled.Then, the flashing image of Princetonin 1856, every slave a young man bringsto campus dressed in black, an extra pairof hands to…
Coming to the Clearing: Contemporary Black Poets in Conversation
Coming to the ClearingContemporary Black Poets in Conversation A. H. Jerriod Avant (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), Rickey Laurentiis (bio), Ladan Osman (bio), Safiya Sinclair (bio), Wendy S. Walters (bio), and Phillip B. Williams (bio) The following roundtable was conceived towards the end of outlining the general shape and tenor of an undeniable resurgence—what one might even call, however provocatively, a renaissance—regarding contemporary poetry …
The Age of Athanasius
The publication of the Fourth Report of the Ritual Commission in 1870 occasioned intense debate over the position of the Athanasian Creed in the liturgy of the Church of England. This article reconstructs the course of that controversy, focusing particularly on the centrality of historical argument to the speeches, letters, and pamphlets in which critics and defenders of the formulary sought to stabilise Christian orthodoxy and define Anglican id…
Performances, Acknowledgments, and Dinner: Closing of the 40th Anniversary Celebration
Callaloo and Creative Writing
Callaloo and Creative Writing* Jacinda Townsend (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Gregory Pardlo (bio), John McCluskey Jr. (bio), Ishion Hutchinson (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), AH Jerriod Avant (bio), Stacy Parker Le Melle (bio), and Sebastian Matthews (bio) TOWNSEND: Hi and welcome to the panel Callaloo and Creative Writing. In 1997, Dr. Rowell formed the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. The workshop was first mounted at HBCUs like Morehouse, Spel…
Callaloo: A Forum for Academics and Creative Writers
Callaloo: A Forum for Academics and Creative Writers* Margo Natalie Crawford (bio), Vievee Francis (bio), Joshua Bennett (bio), Dagmawi Woubshet (bio), and Jeremy M. Clark (bio) Brent Hayes Edwards was also a presenter on this panel. He provided Callaloo with an essay version of his remarks (see pgs. 67–71 in this issue). CRAWFORD: I am Margo Crawford and I am at Cornell University. I’m going to start today with a real focus on Charles Rowell’s i…
“Beyond the Vomiting Dark”: Toward a Black Hydropoetics
This That Life Beyond Your Own Life
This That Life Beyond Your Own Life Joshua Bennett (bio) I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it. —Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals And there are stars, but none of you, to spare. —June Jordan, "Sunflower Sonnet Number Two" As a boy, my favorite part of Sunday morning service was wat…
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things
Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things Joshua Bennett (bio) Work might be better conceptualized by examining the range of work that African-American women actually perform. Work as alienated labor can be economically exploitative, physically demanding, and intellectually deadening—the type of work long associated with Black women's status as "mule." Alienated labor can be paid—the case of Black women in domestic service, those Black women working as d…
God and progress religion and history in British intellectual culture, 1845-1914: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914
Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, 'God and Progress' offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in 19th-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progressive ideas of history transformed British Protestant traditions, as religious debate, in turn, profoundly shaped Victorian ideas of history. It adopts a remarkably wide co…
Buck Theory
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
August Neander and the Religion of History in the Nineteenth-Century ‘Priesthood of Letters’
The Berlin ecclesiastical historian, August Neander (1789–1850), developed a religiously driven conception of history which excited contemporaries across the Protestant world. This article reconstructs the impetus which Neander gave to the creation of a religiously cosmopolitan historical imagination in Germany, Britain, and the United States. At a time when Hegelian and ‘scientific’ models of historical progress foretold a post-Christian future …
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure-the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark-in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden.…
A Greater Truth than Any Other Truth You Know: A Conversation with Professor Sylvia Wynter on Origin Stories
Sylvia Wynter is an emeritus professor from Stanford University. She is also an essayist and creative writer whose work is deeply informed by the twentieth century Anti-Colonial Movement and the U
Owed to the Tardigrade
Some of these microscopic invertebrates shrug off temperaturesof minus 272 Celsius, one degree warmer than absolute zero.Other species can endure powerful radiation and the vacuum of space.In 2007
John S. Haller Jr. Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920
Response to Benedikt Stuchtey
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