RT Article
T1 A Black Feminist Study of Religion: Inheriting Victor Anderson’s Black Religious and Cultural Criticism
JF Black theology
VO 21
IS 1
SP 8
OP 20
A1 Lomax, Tamura
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1841931217
AB In this article, I outline what Kristie Dotson refers to as an “inheritance map” for the epistemological insights and critical moves in Victor Anderson’s Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism (1995). I establish that Beyond Ontological Blackness represents what Stuart Hall calls a significant break – “where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes”11 Hall, “Cultural Studies." – and thusly, a new direction in the study of black22 In my current writing projects (post 2019) I use Black (rather than black) and white for political reasons. Full stop. I deploy a “b” when engaging oppression, however. Still, making distinctions in this essay between what should have a “B” (for example, Black women, church, students, presence, subject, religion, experience, etc.) and what should have a “b” (for example, antiblack, ontological blackness, symbolic blackness, black heroic cultural genius, black crisis, etc.) proved extremely difficult. Most challenging was turning my powerful “B” into a “b” throughout for clarity and consistency. religion and theology33 This is not slippage. I distinguish between black theology and the study of black religion at length in Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018).: black religion and culture studies. The latter of which makes room for a black feminist study of religion.
K1 Womanist Theology
K1 postmodern blackness
K1 inheritance mapping
K1 the grotesque
K1 black heroic cultural genius
K1 Black feminist religio-cultural criticism
DO 10.1080/14769948.2023.2180135