Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity

Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference. Coatess brief comments on Christianity in his highly acclaimed Between the World and Me make clear that religious faith is alien to his own experience. Still Christian audiences from congregations to theological schools engaged the text for its analysis of the state of race relations in the United States. In September 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates tweeted Best thing about #BetweenTheWorldAndMe is watching Christians engage the work. Serious learning experience for me. This volume takes that tweet as an invitation to theologians ethicists and religious studies scholars to engage the book and as a challenge to do so in a way that is a learning experience for Coates the authors and readers.