“J. Kameron Carter’s claim that the modern western formulations of racial capitalism and religion go hand in hand renders it impossible to think the one without the other. His interventions in this ambitious, rich, and imaginative book have the power to change the study of religion as a whole and in tremendously salutary, necessary ways.” — Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion
"In our racially segregated world, this diffunity is crucial to explore, especially as a Christian. As Carter describes it, Christianity helped create a religiopolitical regime of antiblack exclusion and racial capitalist extraction. But with Carter, I too am dreaming of an alternative social order—one that is not predicated on exclusion and instead chooses to embrace difference and learn from Indigenous ways of living in harmony with all creatures." — Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo, Sojourners
"In many ways, [J. Kameron Carter's] book is a prayer that brings about a childlike sense of imagination. It becomes more than an intellectual work and something I view as deeply pastoral."
— Jordan Burton, Presbyterian Outlook
“The Anarchy of Black Religion is a pivotal contribution to fostering an imagination other than the one that has been furthered in the age of modernity. J. Kameron Carter reformulates modern religion as key to understanding the inseparability of the polity and the colony, of liberty and necessity, and of value and violence. As Carter outlines, the black study of religion assembles an image of mattering that cannot be arrested by the intrinsic antiblackness that sustains the reign of the Human and inflicts unrelenting physical and symbolic violence on the planet and all of its existents.” — Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Toward a Global Idea of Race