Daniel Louis Wyche - "The Care of Self and the Care of the Other" - Curtis J. Evans

Name: Daniel Louis Wyche - "The Care of Self and the Care of the Other" - Curtis J. Evans
Start: 2026-04-17T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637

Schedule

Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637 | Chicago, IL

Daniel Louis Wyche will discuss his new book "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other." He will be joined in conversation by Curtis J. Evans. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op
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About the Book: What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world? "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other" explores the ways several twentieth-century thinkers can help us relate the “care of the self” to the “care of the other,” tracing their accounts of how and why practices intended to change an individual can help spur social and political change, just as collective political action can produce a transformation of the self.
About the Author: Daniel Wyche received his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2020, and has been senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center for Contemporary Critical Thought since 2023.
About the Interlocutor: Curtis J. Evans is an historian of American religions. His teaching interests include modern American religion, social Christianity, race and religion, and the intersection of slavery and Christianity. His first book, "The Burden of Black Religion" (Oxford University Press, 2008), was an historical analysis of debates about the role of religion in the lives of African Americans and the historical origins of the category of "the black church." His research emphases are on interpretations and cultural images of African American religion, as well as the political, social, and cultural divisions in the US along the fault lines of race, religion, and social/cultural change. His published essays have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Church History, Journal of Southern Religion, and Religion and American Culture. His most recent book, "A Theology of Brotherhood: The Federal Council of Churches and the Problem of Race" (New York University Press, 2024), examined the efforts of one prominent ecumenical Protestant organization to address racial oppression in the US before the emergence of the Civil Rights movement. Currently, he is working on a book project that examines rival visions of Christianity and ethical norms in theological and moral debates about slavery, the Christian Bible, and sources of religious authority in the antebellum period.