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637 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2011)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0637 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Democracy's Anxious Returns By DAVID KYUMAN KIM and JOHN L. JACKSON JR. Keywords: race; religion; secularism; neoliberalism; public sphere; democracy American Negro history . .. testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.... And here we are, at the center of the are, trapped in the gaudiest, most valu- able, and most improbable water wheel in our hands; we must have no right to assume other- wise. If we-and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or cre- ate, the consciousness of the others-do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! -James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1998) How does democracy say race and religion? In light of recent and not-so-recent political devel- opments across the globe, one might proclaim, David Kyuman Kim is an associate professor of reli- gious studies and American studies at Connecticut College; senior advisor at the Social Science Research Council; editor-at-large of The Immanent Frame; and coeditor, with John L. Jackson and Rudy Busto, of the Stanford University Press series RaceReligion. He is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Oxford University Press 2007), and he is currently writing The Public Life of Love. John L. Jackson Jr is Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology at the Unirersity of Pennsylvania. He has published three books, most reently Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas Books 2008). He is completing a manuscript on global black Hebrewism and an ethnographic film (codirected with Deborah A. Thomas) on state violence against Pastafari in Jamaica. DOJ: 10.1177/0002716211408277 ANNALS, AAPSS, 637, September 2011 6