If we think about Catonsville not just as a curiosity, a minor episode in the history of radical chic, but as a provocation or a template, what do we learn? Must Americans burn something to get attention? Must religious protesters be arrested?
Jason C. Bivins
Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion, a study of the intersections of jazz and American religions, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015 and has received attention from NPR, the Washington Times, Downbeat, All About Jazz, and all the usual academic suspects. In addition, he is the author of Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
