John Corrigan Books

The book explores how the emotional turn in scholarship has transformed the study of monotheistic religions, emphasizing the interplay between emotion and religious life. It integrates insights from various disciplines, highlighting how religion shapes emotional experiences and vice versa. By adopting a constructivist approach, the author examines the complexities of feelings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, categorizing them into affect, emotion, and mixed emotions. This analysis reveals both the commonalities and distinctions across these faith traditions.

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting , John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory’s role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.