3. A Colony Called Freedom: Religion, Empire, and Black Christian Settlers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Formations: Slavery, Settlers, and Salvation
5. Introduction 17
6. 1. Rebellion and Religion: Slavery and Empire in Early America 19
7. 2. Making Religion in Michilimackinac: Settler Secularism and US Empire 41
8. 3. A Colony Called Freedom: Religion, Empire, and Black Christian Settlers 63
9. Part II. Biopolitics: Imperial Classifications, Sentimental Reform, and Indigenous Tactics of Survival
10. Introduction 83
11. 4. Religion on the Brink: Settler-Colonial Knowledge Production in the US Census 85
12. 5. Imperial Intersections: Social Surveys, Sentimental Biopolitics, and Religion at Hull House 103
13. 6. “They Call It Ghost Dance . . . But It’s Feather Dance”: Indigenous Histories in the Study of Religion and US Empire 124
14. Part III. Entanglements: Global Networks, Christian Missions, and the Racial Projects of US Empire
15. Introduction 149
16. 7. “The Same Blood as We in America”: Industrial Schooling and American Empire 151
17. 8. Black Spiritual Protest in Global Imperial Contexts, 1893–1920 179
18. 9. An Evangelical Occupation: The Racial and Imperial Politics of US Protestant Missions in the Dominican Republic 203
19. Part IV. Dialectics: Wastelanding, Weaponry, and Capitalist Exclusions
20. Introduction 229
21. 10. The Trouble of an Indian Diocese: Catholic Priests and Sexual Abuse in Colonized Places 231
22. 11. Fire from Heaven: Napalm, the Drone, and Evangelical Territoriality in the Age of Empire 253
23. 12. American Islam, Settler Colonialism, and Democratic Empires in the Work of Robert D. Crane 275
24. 13. Decolonization™ 298
25. Acknowledgments 321
26. Bibliography 323
27. About the Editors 349
28. About the Contributors 351
29. Index 355