The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2022-05-29 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srac009

Damon Mayrl

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article revisits the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois on the white church. Drawing on a synthetic reading of his scholarship on white Christianity, I argue that Du Bois conceives of the white church as a racialized organization that has been indelibly shaped by white supremacy. I then elaborate six mechanisms identified by Du Bois through which white churches further perpetuate white supremacy: legitimation, revisionism, inaction, segregation, missionary work, and charitable giving. Building on this analysis, I sketch a Du Boisian agenda for research on the white church and show how it can enrich scholarship in the sociology of religion, critical scholarship on race, and the Du Boisian renaissance more broadly.

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白人灵魂的恐惧:杜波依斯的白人教会理论

本文回顾了W.E.B.杜波依斯关于白人教堂的著作。根据对他关于白人基督教的学术研究的综合解读，我认为杜波依斯认为白人教会是一个种族化的组织，受到白人至上主义的不可磨灭的影响。然后，我详细阐述了杜波依斯确定的白人教会进一步延续白人至上主义的六种机制:合法化、修正主义、不作为、隔离、传教工作和慈善捐赠。在此分析的基础上，我概述了杜波依斯对白人教会研究的议程，并展示了它如何丰富宗教社会学的学术研究，种族批判性学术研究，以及更广泛的杜波依斯文艺复兴。

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7.50

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.