In the first chapter of Race, Carter begins the work of excavating what is theological—to be slightly more specific, what is theopolitical—about the problem of race, making “a case for how matters of race, religion, and the modern state as the organizing form of civil society and public culture are far from unrelated” (39). To begin, Carter outlines two contemporary accounts of race, noting how they lay a sort of groundwork for his own analysis but ultimately are inadequate, thus opening up the space for his own contribution to this area of scholarship.
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Carter book event: Prologue and Prelude
Carter positions his book as an attempt to fill a gap in the existing discussion of the modern racial imagination. As he states in his prologue, this question has been tackled from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, “Yet one is hard-pressed to find an adequate theological account of the modern problem of race” (3).
Race is an attempt to begin to correct that significant oversight, and it is structured into three parts. Continue reading “Carter book event: Prologue and Prelude”
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