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Intro -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Of stories and theory -- Claims and interventions -- The woman in prayer again -- Notes -- 1. Faithful fasting: the Indian independence movement -- India's religious context -- Gandhi's religious formation -- South African religious and political roots -- Violence and nonviolence in political campaigns -- Gandhi's 1924 Hindu-Muslim fast -- The Salt March -- The Dalit fasts -- Fasting through independence and partition -- Political and religious unity through to the end -- Religion as a coercive element of Gandhi's fasts -- Notes -- 2. Invoking violence: the civil rights movement -- Central argument and frame -- First forays into public prayer protest -- Prayer pilgrimage for civil rights -- Breadth of 1957s prayer activity -- Emerging uses of prayer -- From Berkeley to Burgland - prayer protest rising -- The period of piety: 1962-66 -- Violence rising in 1963 -- Activist and status quo prayers in contrast -- 1966: protest prayer ascendant -- Prayer persistent, potent, and descending -- Gender and violence in public protest prayer -- Respectability and freedom through public prayer -- Notes -- 3. Sacred surety: divine mandate and violence in the antiabortion movement -- Early twentieth-century abortion context -- Roe and its aftermath -- Operation Rescue emergent -- Violence and Operation Rescue -- Violence of the 1990s -- Christian Identity's influence -- Sacred surety redux -- Sidewalk confrontations -- Theories of religion and violence -- Sacred surety at work -- Notes -- 4. The Pope and the Black Madonna: ritual, word, and movement in the Polish Solidarity movement -- Introducing the Black Madonna -- The ritual of the Black Madonna pilgrimage -- Arresting the Black Madonna and the aftermath -- A Pope's visit.

Critically analyses the historical, cultural and political dimensions of white religious rage in America, past and presentArgues that religion and race – not economics – are the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the USAMakes key interventions in labour studies and American religious studies Examines the mythological and sociological construct of the 'white labourer' Uncovers the sociological and religious origins of white anxiety Uses the perspectives of theory and method in religious studies, affect studies and critical whiteness studies Shows that white rage is a phenomenon that moves in and through the institutional legitimation of certain forms of white expression and engagement, both 'liberal' and 'conservative' This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the 'white labourer', whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation. They uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots and the evangelical Christian community's uncritical support for Trump, this collection argues that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States