Mapping Black Theology Globally
This essay is a survey of the global presence of black theology in three regions of the world: South Africa, Britain, and the Caribbean. The essay privileges theological anthropology as a framework within which black theology has emerged as a critique of modern racist views of the human self. By sho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2011
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Religion compass
Year: 2011, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 61-70 |
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| Summary: | This essay is a survey of the global presence of black theology in three regions of the world: South Africa, Britain, and the Caribbean. The essay privileges theological anthropology as a framework within which black theology has emerged as a critique of modern racist views of the human self. By showing the globality of black theology it not only aims at dispelling a common misunderstanding that black theology is a peculiarly African-American phenomenon, it also constructs its international presence as a summons to recognize the extent to which black theology itself is riven by the internal differences which always constitute it in the specific idiom of its local responses to the ubiquity of racism in modernity. It is suggested that we take the global reality of black theology as heralding the end of white history and its false (racist) narratives of a universal humanism. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00259.x |