Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Celestial Bodies
- Part I Extraction and Abstraction
- Part II Black Optics
- Part III Quare Bodies
- 13 Body of Knowledge
- 14 The Black Body, Violence, and Religion
- 15 Black Cripistemologies
- 16 Black Erotic Bodies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
14 - The Black Body, Violence, and Religion
from Part III - Quare Bodies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Celestial Bodies
- Part I Extraction and Abstraction
- Part II Black Optics
- Part III Quare Bodies
- 13 Body of Knowledge
- 14 The Black Body, Violence, and Religion
- 15 Black Cripistemologies
- 16 Black Erotic Bodies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter offers a theoretical examination of the relationship between the Black body and religion in African American religious studies, paying particular attention to enslavement and the construction of the slave body and “the flesh” as a complex fulcrum for religious embodiment and self-fashioning in modernity and also for intracommunal bodily violation in Black religious contexts. This chapter wrestles with the philosophical inheritances that scholars in this field must navigate as both an intellectual exercise on the matter of Black existence, and as an ethical problem with regard to how to account for both the experience of domination and the manifold examples of Black religious innovation which sit at the crux of the study of Black religions. Thus, it effectively argues that scholars cannot sidestep attention to the Black body and its interdependence on the fraught category of religion.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature , pp. 204 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024