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The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches. Interview with Sikivu Hutchinson on the themes and issues explored in her groundbreaking new book.

From Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels By Sikivu Hutchinson It’s a good time to be Christian in America. The dark dirty era of persecution has receded and being Christian, shouting it loud and balls to the breeze proud without … Continue reading →

“I just finished reading your book “Moral Combat” and I wanted to thank you for writing it. I am an atheist college professor teaching sociology (mostly criminology and globalization) and while I enjoy reading “New Atheist” folks like Dawkins and … Continue reading →

“So much conversation regarding atheism and humanism gains no  traction, and does little to push beyond areas of comfort and well  worn arguments.  Sikivu Hutchinson’s work offers an important  corrective to this.  With clear and sharp insights, Hutchinson pushes  readers … Continue reading →

By Sikivu Hutchinson Northerners are trained to revile the “primitivism” of the South. It’s a reflex borne of the legacy of slavery as well as an American gothic of trailer parks, inbred cousins, moonshine swilling troglodytes, toothless Klansmen wielding Confederate … Continue reading →

Excerpt: Godless Americana, Forthcoming Summer 2012 ISBN: 978-0615586106 By Sikivu Hutchinson The Judgment day billboard sprawls luminously below like a big tricked out index card over Memphis. The Rapture is coming, a world-wide crucible spreading death and destruction to the … Continue reading →

    Amazon Reader J. Gomez writes: “Moral Combat” is an enlightening book about the current struggle of black humanist atheist beliefs from a feminist point of view. This informative 280-page book is composed of the following eight chapters: 1. … Continue reading →

Moral Combat Explored: A Chat with Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson FROM BRONZE MAGAZINE: She’s black; she’s a feminist; and she’s an atheist. Author and lecturer Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson makes no pretense about her progressive “non- beliefs.” In her book, Moral Combat: … Continue reading →

  “Sikivu is an amazing scholar and writer, with the courage to ‘betray her culture’ (as some would see it) by renouncing the religion that gives so much comfort and identity to so many people. But she does it with … Continue reading →