Race replaced religion as modernity’s dominant public organizing frame

Evidence

The sweep from the medieval to the modern, in this sense, can be said to be reflected in the shifts from religion as dominant public frame for structuring and interpreting social life to the civic religion of race as prevailing fabric of public arrangement and imaginative hermeneutics. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels secularization-of-status arguments; relevant to comparing how religion and race each anchor group-position identities. — connects to: Race displaced religion as modern society’s dominant ordering discourse; Race emerged as a civic religion responding to urbanization and anonymity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 223; Race functions as the political theology of modernity, licensing institutional violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1826 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Race displaced religion as modern society’s dominant ordering discourse #corroborates (0.98)
• Race gained social hegemony as religion declined, becoming a secularized civic theology #corroborates (0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1345
• Race emerged as a civic religion responding to urbanization and anonymity #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 223
• Race functions as the political theology of modernity, licensing institutional violence #expands (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1826
• Race emerged as a civic religion filling the void of lost communal intimacy #expands (0.85)
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683
• Cultural and political shifts can racialize religious identity #complicates (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 150
• Race is counter-historical in displacing theological modes of rationality and sociality #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1825
• Race has structured population membership and exclusion throughout modernity #corroborates (0.75)
• Racial divisions historically eclipsed interdenominational religious divisions in American life #corroborates (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 464