Christopher M Driscoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 4500737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher M Driscoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher M |
| FAMILY NAME | Driscoll |
| SIGNATURE | DRISCOLL C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5272-4607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Africana Religions beyond Belief
The authors attend to understudied Africana nonbeliever postures—including humanist, atheist, freethought, and nontheist—calling the field of Africana religions to study this quantitatively small, yet significant life orientation. The article includes a survey of Africana nonbeliever organizations and voices in the West, an overview of atheism and irreligious affiliation in certain African countries, and an argument that a critical methodological…
Mountaineering religion – a critical introduction
The outside world, for instance, persists in regarding mountaineering simply as a pastime – a rather peculiar pastime indulged in by very peculiar people. To the true mountaineer it is much more th
Sublime Sahib
This article explores western big mountain climbing practices in the Himalaya as ‘secular’ processes of identity formation with historical roots in Victorian efforts at sublimation. Such practices necessitate a series of social, embodied, and psychical distinctions structuring (and structured by) a white, western masculine identity. Looking to news and video documentary narratives by and about the late Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck, this article w…
Niggas in Paris
Designators of diasporic travel used within African American religion are seldom interrogated for the manner in which they rely on and reify sacred/profane thinking. These designators also attempt to recuperate a past identity through reliance on self-evident claims like “home,” “memory,” “experience,” and so on. We turn to author James Baldwin and rapper Kanye West to emphasize the manner in which such travel and movement is multiplicative, neve…
White Lies
White Lies considers African-American bodies as the site of cultural debates over a contested "white religion" in the United States. Rooting his analysis in the work of W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin, Christopher Driscoll traces the shifting definitions of "white religion" from the nineteenth century up to the death of Michael Brown and other racial controversies of the present day. He engages both modern philosophers and popular imagery to isol…
White Lies
Mountaineering religion – a critical introduction
The outside world, for instance, persists in regarding mountaineering simply as a pastime – a rather peculiar pastime indulged in by very peculiar people. To the true mountaineer it is much more th
White Lies
White Lies considers African-American bodies as the site of cultural debates over a contested "white religion" in the United States. Rooting his analysis in the work of W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin, Christopher Driscoll traces the shifting definitions of "white religion" from the nineteenth century up to the death of Michael Brown and other racial controversies of the present day. He engages both modern philosophers and popular imagery to isol…
White Lies
Niggas in Paris
Designators of diasporic travel used within African American religion are seldom interrogated for the manner in which they rely on and reify sacred/profane thinking. These designators also attempt to recuperate a past identity through reliance on self-evident claims like “home,” “memory,” “experience,” and so on. We turn to author James Baldwin and rapper Kanye West to emphasize the manner in which such travel and movement is multiplicative, neve…
Mountaineering religion – a critical introduction
The outside world, for instance, persists in regarding mountaineering simply as a pastime – a rather peculiar pastime indulged in by very peculiar people. To the true mountaineer it is much more th
Sublime Sahib
This article explores western big mountain climbing practices in the Himalaya as ‘secular’ processes of identity formation with historical roots in Victorian efforts at sublimation. Such practices necessitate a series of social, embodied, and psychical distinctions structuring (and structured by) a white, western masculine identity. Looking to news and video documentary narratives by and about the late Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck, this article w…
Africana Religions beyond Belief
The authors attend to understudied Africana nonbeliever postures—including humanist, atheist, freethought, and nontheist—calling the field of Africana religions to study this quantitatively small, yet significant life orientation. The article includes a survey of Africana nonbeliever organizations and voices in the West, an overview of atheism and irreligious affiliation in certain African countries, and an argument that a critical methodological…
Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African americans (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Christianisme (2 works) · Christianity (2 works)