Feeling of Forgetting
Christianity, Race + Violence in America
Published on 6. July 2023
256 pages
978-0-226-82764-3 (ISBN)
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A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.
The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory's role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.
The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory's role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.
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John Corriganis the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and professor of history at Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books, including
Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Bad Memories
- 1. Colonial Legacies
- 2. Trauma
- 3. Emotion
- 4. Forgetting and Remembering
- 5. Anxiety, Erasure, and Affect
- 6. Race, Religion, and Nation
- Conclusion: The Feeling of Forgetting
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
