J. Kameron Carter

J. Kameron Carter teaches courses in systematic theology and black church studies at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account (OUP, 2008). He is also the author of the forthcoming Dark Church: A Poetics of Black Assembly (Yale University Press).

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Religion Dispatches

James H. Cone: In Memoriam

The earth shook and then wailed and then groaned this morning and I’m now beyond sad… I’ve just received some difficult news: a celestial light just went out, theologian James H. Cone has passed…

J. Kameron Carter

April 30, 2018

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Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

Early Sunday morning I woke up, my phone abuzz with news. Reading about the shooting in Orlando, worry and fright overcame me. Still in a semi-wake, semi-sleep, semi-dream state, I thought it was…

J. Kameron Carter

June 13, 2016

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Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

Anthea Butler caught flack for arguing the Zimmerman verdict exposed that a god-complex tied to white supremacy remains powerfully at work within U.S. society. She’s right, but I propose that the only religious response is to be atheist.

J. Kameron Carter

July 23, 2013

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