J Kameron Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 41793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Kameron Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Kameron |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song
The Excremental Sacred: A Paraliturgy
Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene
In Political Theology on Edge , the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of…
Black Malpractice (A Poetics of the Sacred)
Against the backdrop of the summer 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this article thinks about that event as indexing a crisis of US political theology, indeed, as a volatile flashpoint wherein the sacred comes into view otherwise. Here the sacred figures as the incalculable whose history is that of a something else, somewhere else. Nowhere. Without representation and thus in rapture from the terms of order, from politica…
Religion, Race, and Popular Culture
This chapter discusses the intersection of race, religion, and popular culture. Race is posited here not as synonymous with people of color, but rather as an analytic category that examines the social construction and very real reality of racialization: the process of becoming and identifying whiteness, blackness, and so on. Two broad approaches to the study of race, religion, and popular culture are examined: Popular Culture in Religion, and Rel…
Untitled and Outdoors: Thinking with Saidiya Hartman
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
The Inglorious: With and Beyond Giorgio Agamben
Paratheological Blackness
I argue in this essay that blackness can and should be thought of as a paratheological ghosting of modernity, where modernity is to be understood as a practice of sovereignty or political theology. As paratheological, blackness has an appositional-and not merely an oppositional-relationship to modernity's theological protocols, whose scripts are often hidden under the veil of what has come to be called the secular. Thus, blackness names an ecumen…
An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man
An Unlikely Convergence:W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man J. Kameron Carter (bio) Back beyond the world and swept by these wild, white faces of the awful dead, why will this Soul of White Folk,—this modern Prometheus,—hang bound by his own binding, tethered by a fable of the past? I hear his mighty cry reverberating through the world, "I am white!" Well and good, O Prometheus, divine thief! —W. E. B. Du Bois, D…
An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man
Research Article| November 01 2011 An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man J. Kameron Carter J. Kameron Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2011) 11 (3): 167–224. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949760 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Kameron Carter; An Unlikely Convergen…
Race: A Theological Account
Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account this book engages this problem for what it is: a theological problem. This book contends that the modern race question and the modern Jewish question are linked through the theological problem of the constitution of modernity's racial imagination, a constitution ground…
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity: A Theological Engagement With Douglass's 1845 Narrative
This essay is about identity and the place of religion and theology in how it is thought about and performed. I purse this subject through a theologically informed reading of the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Taking Douglass's Narrative as emblematic of how identity continues to be conceived, I explain what is promising in the close link forged between religion, theology and culture. The promise of Douglass's Narrative resides…
Christology, Or Redeeming Whiteness: A Response to James Perkinson's Appropriation of Black Theology
In this response essay, the author argues that Perkinson's appropriation of black liberation theology as a means of articulating what white redemption in the interests of a more whole and just society in the third millennium would entail, in fact, falters because his vision assumes the strengths, but more devastatingly, the limitations of the form of black liberation theology he appropriates, limitations that come to infect Perkinson's vision, re…
Contemporary Black Theology: A Review Essay
Books reviewed in this article: Dwight N. Hopkins, Introducing Black Theology of Liberation Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, and Over; Slave Religion and Black Theology Dwight N. Hopkins, Heart and Head: Black Theology–Past, Present, and Future
Paratheological Blackness
I argue in this essay that blackness can and should be thought of as a paratheological ghosting of modernity, where modernity is to be understood as a practice of sovereignty or political theology. As paratheological, blackness has an appositional-and not merely an oppositional-relationship to modernity's theological protocols, whose scripts are often hidden under the veil of what has come to be called the secular. Thus, blackness names an ecumen…
Untitled and Outdoors: Thinking with Saidiya Hartman
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
The Inglorious: With and Beyond Giorgio Agamben
Contemporary Black Theology: A Review Essay
Books reviewed in this article: Dwight N. Hopkins, Introducing Black Theology of Liberation Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, and Over; Slave Religion and Black Theology Dwight N. Hopkins, Heart and Head: Black Theology–Past, Present, and Future
Christology, Or Redeeming Whiteness: A Response to James Perkinson's Appropriation of Black Theology
In this response essay, the author argues that Perkinson's appropriation of black liberation theology as a means of articulating what white redemption in the interests of a more whole and just society in the third millennium would entail, in fact, falters because his vision assumes the strengths, but more devastatingly, the limitations of the form of black liberation theology he appropriates, limitations that come to infect Perkinson's vision, re…
Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity: A Theological Engagement With Douglass's 1845 Narrative
This essay is about identity and the place of religion and theology in how it is thought about and performed. I purse this subject through a theologically informed reading of the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Taking Douglass's Narrative as emblematic of how identity continues to be conceived, I explain what is promising in the close link forged between religion, theology and culture. The promise of Douglass's Narrative resides…
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
Race: A Theological Account
Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account this book engages this problem for what it is: a theological problem. This book contends that the modern race question and the modern Jewish question are linked through the theological problem of the constitution of modernity's racial imagination, a constitution ground…
An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man
An Unlikely Convergence:W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man J. Kameron Carter (bio) Back beyond the world and swept by these wild, white faces of the awful dead, why will this Soul of White Folk,—this modern Prometheus,—hang bound by his own binding, tethered by a fable of the past? I hear his mighty cry reverberating through the world, "I am white!" Well and good, O Prometheus, divine thief! —W. E. B. Du Bois, D…
An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man
Research Article| November 01 2011 An Unlikely Convergence: W. E. B. Du Bois, Karl Barth, and the Problem of the Imperial God-Man J. Kameron Carter J. Kameron Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2011) 11 (3): 167–224. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949760 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Kameron Carter; An Unlikely Convergen…
The Inglorious: With and Beyond Giorgio Agamben
Paratheological Blackness
I argue in this essay that blackness can and should be thought of as a paratheological ghosting of modernity, where modernity is to be understood as a practice of sovereignty or political theology. As paratheological, blackness has an appositional-and not merely an oppositional-relationship to modernity's theological protocols, whose scripts are often hidden under the veil of what has come to be called the secular. Thus, blackness names an ecumen…
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
Untitled and Outdoors: Thinking with Saidiya Hartman
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Religion, Race, and Popular Culture
This chapter discusses the intersection of race, religion, and popular culture. Race is posited here not as synonymous with people of color, but rather as an analytic category that examines the social construction and very real reality of racialization: the process of becoming and identifying whiteness, blackness, and so on. Two broad approaches to the study of race, religion, and popular culture are examined: Popular Culture in Religion, and Rel…
Black Malpractice (A Poetics of the Sacred)
Against the backdrop of the summer 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this article thinks about that event as indexing a crisis of US political theology, indeed, as a volatile flashpoint wherein the sacred comes into view otherwise. Here the sacred figures as the incalculable whose history is that of a something else, somewhere else. Nowhere. Without representation and thus in rapture from the terms of order, from politica…
The Excremental Sacred: A Paraliturgy
Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene
In Political Theology on Edge , the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of…
The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song
Philosophy (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works)