The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long

Those less familiar with Long’s work will find The Collected Works of Charles Long to be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate classes within American Religious History, Religious Studies, or African American Religious History. * Reading Religion *
Throughout these thirty-eight essays (some unpublished), Long moves effortlessly from textured historical narrative to hermeneutics and back again, all in his unique voice. Simply put, this book is absolutely essential for anyone with a serious interest in questions of method and theory or the history of the discipline. * Reading Religion *
A wonderfully complex, yet accessible, compendium of his own writings ... Long welcomes and engages the reader right from the start through a warm narrative that opens the book ... Fascinating and impressive ... [It] should earn an important place in the field of religious studies. The breadth of Long’s knowledge about American religion and the readability of the text lends itself to becoming a volume of lasting importance. * Nova Religio *
This publication brings forth some of the best and most powerful thought and writing by the great innovator Charles H. Long. It combines turning points, immersions and illuminations that make up the history of the history of religions à la Charles H. Long. It fulfils a promise Long made years ago to his students that he would give us a lively record of his ingenuity, commitments and insights. A gift! * Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard University, USA *
This is the book I have been waiting for from Charles H. Long. In one volume, the reader is treated to the seminal work of Long over the course of his lengthy academic career as a historian of religion. Long’s probing insights, the power of his imagery, his careful and persistent mining of fundamental questions to the drama of religion in human lives lays bare the rich terrain of human lives that are often obscured and unheeded. Long encourages us to expand our horizons as we mine the depths of our humanity. * Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA *
This is the book for which academics have long waited—the collected writings of a beloved scholar who has inspired generations in the critical interpretation of religion, race, and the modern world. The theoretical insights of Charles H. Long’s capacious intellect adorn every page of this text. Long is an intellectual reckoning made flesh, and he has now bequeathed to readers a legacy of brilliance in long-form. * Sylvester A. Johnson, Professor of Religion and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA *
Charles H. Long is the veritable African-American doyen of critical Religious Studies. This well-selected collection wonderfully illustrates his intellectual strengths, showing how he has always been prepared to address even the hardest questions and also the grounding of his illustrious career in the University of Chicago. These essays reveal Long in his ceaseless quest to understand humanity's religious meanings, his common provocations about the troublesome expansion of 'civilizing' Europeans and its implications, as well as his continuing appreciation of Chicago. * Garry W Trompf, Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, University of Sydney, Australia *
It has been a long time coming for scholars to take up this serious effort in all of its depth, variety, and splendour in forging an elliptical thinking inspired by the thought of Charles H. Long. * Black Theology *