J. Kameron Carter

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The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Thinking about the discourse of “religion and violence”
  by William Cavanaugh
- Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history
  by Azfar Moin
- Rabid for a peace
  by Suzanne van Geuns
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Book Review: Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa
  by Lilian Namuma S. Kong’ani
- The Notion of the “Veil of Ignorance” in Uganda’s 1995 Constitutional Reforms
  by Nixon Wamamela
- An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Nigel Mxolisi Landa
  by Next Generation Social Sciences
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J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School and is a member of Duke University’s Graduate Faculty of Religion. He is the author most recently of Race: A Theological Account (OUP, 2008) and is working on two book projects: The Secular Jesus: Political Theology from Columbus to the Age of Obama (with Yale University Press) and Death Negotiations: Black Intellectuals and Religion. He maintains a blog at jkameroncarter.com.

Latest posts

Political Theology

The politics of the atonement

J. Kameron Carter·

July 18, 2011

To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…

off the cuff

Religion and the midterm elections

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Jason C. Bivins·

J. Kameron Carter·

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John L. Jackson, Jr.·

David Kyuman Kim·

Rabbi Michael Lerner·

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Jeffrey Stout·

Emilie Townes·

November 5, 2010

Set against a backdrop of continued economic distress, the emerging Tea Party movement, and mercurial public opinion of President Obama, many observers…