Rethinking W.E.B. Du Bois, rethinking religion and race -- The hero with a black face: autobiography and mythology of self -- Race as cosmic sight in The Souls of Black Folk -- A dark monk who wrote history and sociology: the spiritual wage of whiteness, the Black church, and mystical Africa -- Black Messiahs and murderous whites: violence and faith in literary expression -- Christ was a communist: religion for an aging leftist -- Epilogue: the passing of the prophet.