On E6 of S2 of All Things Cosmic, we're so delighted to sit down with the erudite and exceptionally insightful Christopher M. Driscoll, Associate Professor of Religion Studies at Lehigh University as he lets us in on key schematic background information on which his new text, White Devils, Black Gods: Race, Masculinity, and Religious Codependency (Bloomsbury, 2022), is founded. Dr. Driscoll totally goes in on his transformative encounter with Nation of Islam offshoot known as Nation of Gods and Earths, also known as the Five Percent Nation, and offers a skillfully audacious take on their concept of the "White Devil" that, in Sankofa fashion, returns us to pre-NGE understandings of this trope while luring us to the present where he provocatively appeals to it to reveal the many times ugly and hidden truths of "Whiteness" to itself. Featuring music by Saturn-dropkicking Chicago Hip-Hop collective Tomorrow Kings and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Process Studies as well as the 2023 Common Good Film Festival, both occurring in Claremont, CA between 2/14-20/2023, this is an episode you don't want to snooze on.

Christopher M. Driscoll

www.christopherdriscollphd.com

Twitter:  @whiteliesbook

Tomorrow Kings

www.tomorrowkings.bandcamp.com

Twitter: @tomorrowkings

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