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"Leerom Medovoi's The Inner Life of Race engages questions of race, power, and embodiment to analyze how systems of color-line racism are different and similar to other forms of racism, such as Islamophobia or anti-semitism. Working through a Foucauldian frame, Medovoi offers a genealogy of governmentally and security, outlining a parallel between hierarchies of racial embodiment and of what he calls "ensoulment," a system he traces back to fifteenth-century Catholic Spain and the church's attempts to sort out true believers from those who might be passing and thus threats to the whole. He argues that the Church's active concern for true believers directly prefigures the racial-security biopolitics which emerges a few centuries later. This attention to religious concerns enables Medovoi to trace the mutations of religious control to political control and religious fanaticism into political fanaticism, and to analyze how contemporary antisemitism and Islamophobia-as well as homophobia and transphobia-draw on centuries-old anxieties about the particular threats posed by the soul who "passes" as Christian or as a white body"--

The contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging--from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East--intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities -- Contributors -- Part I. Secularism -- Keyword: Neutrality -- Keyword: Science -- 2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective -- 3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution -- 4. Neoliberal Political Theology -- 5. "Christian Atheism" on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion -- Part II: Religion -- Keyword: Nationalism -- Keyword: Fundamentalism -- 6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement -- 7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel -- 8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions -- 9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgence of American Conservatism during the 1970s -- 10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands -- Part III: Political belonging -- Keyword: Faith -- Keyword: Civil Religion -- 11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism -- 12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands -- 13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism -- 14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China -- 15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Identitarian Thought and the Cold War World -- 2. Cold War Literature and the National Allegory: The Identity Canon of Holden Caulfield -- 3. Transcommodification: Rock 'n' Roll and the Suburban Counterimaginary -- 4. Identity Hits the Screen: Teenpics and the Boying of Rebellion -- 5. Oedipus in Suburbia: Bad Boys and the Fordist Family Drama -- 6. Beat Fraternity and the Generation of Identity -- 7. Where the Girls Were: Figuring the Female Rebel -- Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Identity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

This introductory essay points to the long patterns as well as the telling diversity of relationships revealed in genealogies of the race/religion/war triad. Our key observation is that race, religion, and war come together as a meaningful constellation precisely because they together underpin one dominant strategy of the power that we call the political, while at the same time we recognize that the relationships among race, religion, and war are simultaneously too compressed, historically transient, and reversible to take the form of a simple functionalism; indeed, at any particular moment their articulation is historically specific and subject to rearticulation. From the religious crucibles for the formation of race in the conquest of the Americas to the pastoral Christian origins of modern racial governmentality; from the colonial wars of high imperialism and the third-world proxy wars for the purportedly secular rivalry of the Cold War to the contemporary conditions of Muslim migrant and refugee communities—these multiple overlapping genealogies, we argue, are necessary reference points for an adequate analysis of our political present. As one way to think across these genealogies, we highlight the intersection of two ostensibly parallel scholarly trajectories: race as political theology and race as political ontology. Both of these trajectories point toward the condensed relationships among our three terms, illuminating in the process the deep structure of our present.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- I. READING MEN, READING RACE -- Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity -- Fiedler and Sons -- II. WHITE LIKE WHO? -- "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment -- Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues -- Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification -- The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture -- All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity -- III. VISUALIZING RACE AND THE SUBJECT OF MASCULINITIES -- The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II -- "The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy -- The White Man's Muscles -- Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema -- Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- IV. COMING AFTER -- Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- Works Cited -- Index -- Contributors