Religion In The Age Of Obama

Synopsis

This Is The First Book To Focus On The Significance Of Religion During President Obama's Years In The White House, Both In The United States And Internationally. Religion In The Age Of Obama Explores The Religious And Moral Underpinning Of The Obama Presidency And Of Subsequent Debates Regarding His Tenure In The White House. It Provides An Analysis Of Obama's Beliefs And Their Relationship To His Vision Of Public Life, As Well As The Way In Which The General Ethos Of Religion And Non-religion Has Shifted Over The Past Decade In The United States Under His Presidency. Including Chapters From John L. Jackson Jr., Kathryn Lofton, Sylvester A. Johnson, Keri Day, And Max Perry Mueller, Topics Include How Obama Has Employed Religious Rhetoric In Response To Both International And Domestic Events, His Attempt To Inhabit A Kind Of Blackness That Comforts And Reassures Rather Than Challenges White America, The Limits Of Christian Hospitality Within U.s. Immigration Policy, And The Racialization Of Islam In The U.s. National Imagination. Drawing On A Wide-range Of Topics, This Book Shows That The Years Of The Obama Presidency Served As A Watershed Moment Of Significant Reorganization Of The Role Of Religion In National Public Life. Religion In The Age Of Obama Is An Important And Timely Contribution To Debates On Religion, Race, And Public Life In The United States. Religion (and Race) Problems On The Way To The White House: Mitt Romney And Barack Obama's Faith'' Speeches / Max Perry Mueller -- Political Spirituality, Or The Oprahfication Of Obama / Kathryn Lofton -- A Muslim In The White House?: Race, Islam, And The Presidency Of Barack Obama / Sylvester A. Johnson -- Toward A Culture Of Mercy: Augustine, Pope Francis, And The Transformation Of Moral Imagination / Melanie Webb -- The Welfare Of Faith / Alison Collis Greene -- The Mystification Of Capitalism And The Misdirection Of White Anger / Rebecca Todd Peters -- Costs Of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, And People Of Color Are Paying For Hobby Lobby's Sincerely Held Beliefs / Megan Goodwin -- Black Prophetic Discourse And Just War Theory In The Age Of Obama / Juan M. Floyd-thomas -- When White Is The New Black: Religious Populism In The Age Of Obama / Keri Day -- In The Wake Of Obama's Hope: Thoughts On Black Lives Matter, Moralism, And Re-imaging Race Struggle / Anthony B. Pinn -- Deporter-in-chief: Why Reject Christian Hospitality? / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Now Next: Confronting The Past And Shaping The Future / Sharon Welch. Edited By Juan M. Floyd-thomas And Anthony B. Pinn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.