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""Showing how talk--and writing--about ""fanaticism"" fed a racialized politics of US empire at home and abroad, Wheatley's book reveals the violence and resistance embedded in the work of categorizing and policing religion.""--Pamela E. Klassen, author of The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land ""A well-researched and conceptually ambitious effort to understand a term people use for what they do not understand. In his nuanced account of how a theological concept was appropriated within religo-racial discourses across historical periods and national contexts, Wheatley's history represents the best of what religious studies has to offer to make sense of the specter of fanaticism in the past as well as in the overheated rhetoric of the present.""--Finbarr Curtis, author of Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy ""An illuminating, insightful and timely study of how the accusation and diagnosis of fanaticism has played a crucial role in shaping the nexus of politics, religion, and race throughout the history of American power- from the struggles over the abolition of slavery to the long arc of colonialism and empire.""--Alberto Toscano, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea ""In this beautifully written book, Jeffrey Wheatley shows how the specter of the fanatic developed in service to racial and colonial rule. Even further, by telling the stories of people deemed fanatics, he resists false dichotomies between 'religious and 'political' motivations to show how power moves in unpredictable ways.""--Tisa Wenger, author of Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion

""In this beautifully written book, Jeffrey Wheatley shows how the specter of the fanatic developed in service to racial and colonial rule. Even further, by telling the stories of people deemed fanatics, he resists false dichotomies between 'religious and 'political' motivations to show how power moves in unpredictable ways.""--Tisa Wenger, author of Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion

""In this beautifully written book, Jeffrey Wheatley shows how the specter of the fanatic developed in service to racial and colonial rule. Even further, by telling the stories of people deemed fanatics, he resists false dichotomies between 'religious and 'political' motivations to show how power moves in unpredictable ways."" - Tisa Wenger, author of Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion ""A well-researched and conceptually ambitious effort to understand a term people use for what they do not understand. In his nuanced account of how a theological concept was appropriated within religo-racial discourses across historical periods and national contexts, Wheatley's history represents the best of what religious studies has to offer to make sense of the specter of fanaticism in the past as well as in the overheated rhetoric of the present."" - Finbarr Curtis, author of Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy ""An illuminating, insightful and timely study of how the accusation and diagnosis of fanaticism has played a crucial role in shaping the nexus of politics, religion, and race throughout the history of American power– from the struggles over the abolition of slavery to the long arc of colonialism and empire."" - Alberto Toscano, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea ""Showing how talk – and writing – about ""fanaticism"" fed a racialized politics of US empire at home and abroad, Wheatley's book reveals the violence and resistance embedded in the work of categorizing and policing religion."" - Pamela E. Klassen, author of The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

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Jeffrey Wheatley is Assistant Professor of Religion at Iowa State University.

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