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The Feeling of Forgetting by John Corrigan

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The Feeling of Forgetting

Christianity, Race, and Violence in America

by John Corrigan

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Length 8 hours 1 minute

Language English

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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.

History Religion Nonfiction Social Science

John Corrigan is 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.

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Author John Corrigan

Narrator narrator

ISBN 9780226833569

Length 8 hours 1 minute

Language English

Publisher University of Chicago Press

Publication date August 14, 2023

Edition Unabridged

Genres History, Religion, Nonfiction & Social Science

Reviews

“Corrigan draws on a lifetime of research and writing about religion, race, and violence to offer insights where others have shrugged with befuddlement. White racial anxiety, he argues, is a feeling produced by the unsuccessful labor of forgetting the violence inherent to chattel slavery and Native dispossession. The result is a charged meditation on religious whiteness in the United States.”

— Jennifer Graber, University of Texas at Austin

"With unabashed frankness and unrelenting truth-telling, Corrigan offers much-needed clarity to the ongoing attempts to account for enduring racism and religious hatred that too often portray the coexistence of Christianity and racism as an unfortunate contradiction or oversimplify the relationship between ideology and violence. A game-changing study."

— Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech

“Corrigan offers a nuanced look at America’s sorry history of racism, violence, and trauma from the colonial era to January 6 and beyond, taking on American Christianity’s proclivity for forgetting our society’s traumatic past. This is a wise and important book with the potential to reshape our national discourse."

— Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College

“Through a sweeping critical review of interdisciplinary work on emotions, trauma, memory, and history, Corrigan carefully assembles a way to understand the intergenerational transmission of trauma among both victims and perpetrators of collective violence. A remarkable and courageous book.”

— William M. Reddy, Duke University

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