Presented By: Department of Anthropology
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Religion In the Closet: Heterosecularisms and Police Practitioners of African Diaspora Religions"
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies Princeton University
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia
The Department of Anthropology presents:
"Religion In the Closet: Heterosecularisms and Police Practitioners of African Diaspora Religions"
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies
Princeton University
Thursday, March 18, 2021
4:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96568104186
"Drawing on ethnographic research with police officers and religious practitioners of African Diaspora religions in the United States, I examine how racialized religions are constructed as evil subjects of state criminality . In interviews with “police-practitioners” or those officers who secretly practice African diaspora religions, they described their religions as “in the closet.” I examine the erotics of religion in the closet as an example of a broader form of sexualized containment in everyday policing. I suggest that the policing of racialized religions in the United States joins emic police conceptions of Christian crusade logics, white supremacy, anti-blackness, and heteronormativity. In this process I argue that racialized religions are simultaneously queered and criminalized. This confluence between heteronormativity in the toxic masculinity of policing and Christian secularisms is what I am calling here, hetero-secularisms."
The Department of Anthropology presents:
"Religion In the Closet: Heterosecularisms and Police Practitioners of African Diaspora Religions"
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies
Princeton University
Thursday, March 18, 2021
4:00 p.m.
Zoom Webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96568104186
"Drawing on ethnographic research with police officers and religious practitioners of African Diaspora religions in the United States, I examine how racialized religions are constructed as evil subjects of state criminality . In interviews with “police-practitioners” or those officers who secretly practice African diaspora religions, they described their religions as “in the closet.” I examine the erotics of religion in the closet as an example of a broader form of sexualized containment in everyday policing. I suggest that the policing of racialized religions in the United States joins emic police conceptions of Christian crusade logics, white supremacy, anti-blackness, and heteronormativity. In this process I argue that racialized religions are simultaneously queered and criminalized. This confluence between heteronormativity in the toxic masculinity of policing and Christian secularisms is what I am calling here, hetero-secularisms."
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