ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a number of densely interrelated themes that are important for mapping some of the shapes that neofoundational ideologies are taking. It provides a discussion of ethical themes that seem important to register for a secular black oppositional politics that lies within the socialist and feminist traditions, those enduring remnants of Enlightenment. There is a rather cynical and highly particularist political strategy often used by religious organizations to appropriate the suffering or racial oppression faced by their putative constituencies while at the same time failing to provide anything like a coherent or feasible analysis of, or opposition to, racial oppression or discrimination that travels any distance beyond an established set of religious aphorisms. The neofoundational political method based on new communications technology highlights an important orientation among religious revivalist and fundamentalist organizations towards natural science.
