Modern religion, modern race

Abstract

Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. Modern Religion, Modern Race argues that because the concepts of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of rethinking what it means to be human, we cannot simply will ourselves to stop using these categories. Only by acknowledging that religion is already racialized can we begin to understand how the two concepts are intertwined and how they operate in our modern world. -- Provided by publisher. Kant and race -- On religion: to Schleiermacher's theoretical despisers -- Chips from another German workshop: Friedrich Max Müller and Friedrich Schleiermacher on language and religion -- Modern communities, national and religious -- Herder and Schleiermacher as unfamiliar sources of racism -- The dark side of modern religion -- Modernity and teleology.