February 25, 2021 | 11:30 a.m. (CST) | Online

The Center for the Church and the Black Experience at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary will welcome Dr. J. Kameron Carter, professor of religion studies at Indiana University, for a virtual public lecture on February 25, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. (CST). Carter's lecture is titled, "Whiteness and the West." All who register by 5:00 p.m. (CST) on February 24th will be emailed the Zoom link at 9:00 a.m. on February 25th.

About Dr. J. Kameron Carter

J. Kameron Carter is professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has additional appointments in the English and African American & African Diaspora Studies departments. In his work, he focuses on questions of blackness, empire and ecology as matters of political theology and the sacred. Dr. Carter is author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008). Additionally, he is the editor of and has contributing essays in Religion and the Futures of Blackness (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2013) and The Matter of Black Religion: Thinking with Charles H. Long (a special issue of the journal of American Religion, 2021). His next book, The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric is forthcoming with Yale UP (fall 2021) and he is in the final stages of another book project, “Black Rapture: A Poetics of the Sacred.” The Religion of Whiteness and Black Rapture are the first two volumes of a trilogy whose general title is Mystic Song. The trilogy advances a new theory of black religion.