RT Book
T1 Religion in the age of Obama
A2 Floyd-Thomas, Juan M.
LA English
PP London New York Oxford New delhi Sydney
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1642413496
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL2525
SN 1350041041
SN 9781350041042
SN 9781350041035
K1 Obama, Barack : Religion : Obama, Barack : 2000-2099
K1 Religion And Politics : History : 21st century : United States
K1 Religion
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 United States : Religion : History : 21st century : United States
K1 Aufsatzsammlung