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When I said that I never wanted to read one more word about the aid celebrity Bono again, I had not imagined the possibility of Religion Around Bono! This book is a concise, eloquent tour de force using Bono as a keyhole through which we can peer into the intimate workings of the religion of racialized, neoliberal, millennial capitalism. The intersectional critique of class, race, and gender draws on anthropology, ethnomusicology, politics, and religious studies to explain how religious sincerity and love obfuscate relations of exploitation. --Lisa Ann Richey, editor of Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power A tough but needed critique of how U2 and Bono's themes of human unity, racial reconciliation, and love are deployed in the service of a larger market-driven projects. --Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American South: A History From the parking lot of a Baptist church in the Florida Panhandle to Dublin, New York, Johannesburg, and the G-8 Summit at Gleneagles, Seales takes his readers on a tour of the evangelical grammar of humanitarian neoliberalism with Bono as his guide. Seales convincingly argues that when Bono speaks for Africa he speaks for religious, cultural, and economic systems far more complex--and far less empowering--than his identity as a rock-and-roll saint may imply. --Jill DeTemple, author of Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador

From the parking lot of a Baptist church in the Florida Panhandle to Dublin, New York, Johannesburg, and the G-8 Summit at Gleneagles, Seales takes his readers on a tour of the evangelical grammar of humanitarian neoliberalism with Bono as his guide. Seales convincingly argues that when Bono speaks for Africa he speaks for religious, cultural, and economic systems far more complex--and far less empowering--than his identity as a rock-and-roll saint may imply. --Jill DeTemple, author of Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador A tough but needed critique of how U2 and Bono's themes of human unity, racial reconciliation, and love are deployed in the service of a larger market-driven projects. --Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American South: A History When I said that I never wanted to read one more word about the aid celebrity Bono again, I had not imagined the possibility of Religion Around Bono! This book is a concise, eloquent tour de force using Bono as a keyhole through which we can peer into the intimate workings of the religion of racialized, neoliberal, millennial capitalism. The intersectional critique of class, race, and gender draws on anthropology, ethnomusicology, politics, and religious studies to explain how religious sincerity and love obfuscate relations of exploitation. --Lisa Ann Richey, editor of Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

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Chad E. Seales is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town.

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