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{"title":"Decolonizing the spirit in education and beyond: resistance and solidarity","authors":"P. Hess","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1842161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842161","url":null,"abstract":"This volume is part of a series that seeks “to examine fundamental questions of life, touching on the meaning, purpose, and mission of education from a variety of spiritual and religious perspectiv...","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"302 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42438451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“To Struggle Up a Never-Ending Stair”: Theodicy and the Failure It Gifts to Black Liberation Theology","authors":"Jamall A. Calloway","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1826652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1826652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There has been much criticism – and an overall unfortunate dismissal – of William R. Jones' Is God A White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology (1973) in the literature of Black liberation theology. What is undertheorized, however, is the constructive possibilities of Jones' work. Analyzing the theological debate between Jones and James H. Cone provides us with the necessary material in order to construct a Black theology that commences with the assumptions of Jones' theodicy. I argue that theodicy is a useful “controlling category” for Black liberation theology, but only – and here I am following Kant – as a result of how its collapses rational arguments for believing in God/liberation. And it is precisely this failure that makes it profoundly useful as an avenue into understanding the contours of “Black faith” that undergirds Black liberation theology.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"223 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1826652","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43234813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brother Malcolm, Dr. King, and Black Power – A Close and Complementary Reading","authors":"Earle J. Fisher","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1833968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1833968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rev. Albert Cleage’s contemporary and counterpart, Dr. James Hal Cone, emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a premier academic voice in Black theology. Cone and Cleage’s collegiality is complicated. Yet, their works on Black theology and Black power complement each other when read in contrast. This essay looks intently at excerpts from Cleage’s sermons, “Brother Malcolm,” and “Dr. King and Black Power” and puts them in conversation with excerpts from Cone’s book “Martin and Malcolm in America.” This work shows the variance in perspectives and theological convictions, as well as the rhetorical strategies employed by Cleage and Cone to make their case for the most faithful engagement to Malcolm and Martin’s contributions to civil rights, Black power, and Black theology.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"263 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1833968","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45061980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"World Christianity in Western Europe: diasporic identity, narratives and missiology","authors":"Anthony G. Reddie","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1842162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842162","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important developments in contemporary Christian theology (particularly that of missiology), and faith-based practice, is the phenomenon of “World Christianity”. The growth of Chris...","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"303 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45114632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postcolonial Interpretation: The Bible in Rastafari","authors":"Marzia A. Coltri","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1840828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1840828","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the development of a hermeneutical, phenomenological approach to Sacred Scriptures emerging from a “Third World” Liberation Theology. Referring to a study of Rastafari theology, I focus on a postcolonial interpretation of the rituals in the Rastafari movement. The adoption in Rastafari livity of the Bible and of apocryphal books such as the Kebra Nagast, The Holy Piby, and The Promised Key explores the meaning of Black identity and of Liberation Theology. This paper undertakes a review of these sacred texts within the Rastafari movement. Indeed, the Rasta spiritual canons create a new category in biblical studies and thus apply a postcolonial discourse and criticism within a “Third World” Theology. This can be seen even in food and music. In 1960s reggae music, scriptural themes are imbued with Ethiopian Christianity. Charismatic figures such as Bob Marley have contributed to vocalising the importance of Black consciousness in the world, and more recently with Ital food, Rastas has marinated eating habits with scriptural themes.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"246 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1840828","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43279276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Anthony G. Reddie","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1842164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842164","url":null,"abstract":"In my own formative narrative as a Black liberation theologian and decolonial educator, I had to traverse the comparatively narrow Wesleyan evangelicalism into which I had been nurtured as a child. This was initially, no easy thing, given the fixed parameters of biblical authority, Holiness, Christian Perfection, and the doctrine of Assurance that permeated my Christian nurture and discipleship as a teenager in inner city Bradford. One of the early attractions of Black theology was the way in which it affirms contestation. Black theology has supported a systematic critique of orthodox, Western Christian theology, challenging long held and often cherished epistemological norms. Suddenly, I was no longer wedded to a colour bind, contextless perspective on the Christian faith. Rather, now I was in possession of a set of conceptual tools and religious praxis that amplified my lived realities and enabled me to become, a more critical thinker and advocate for justice and faith inspired models of liberation. This issue of our journal has been constructed like the last one against the backdrop of Black LivesMatter and the necessity of contesting the aberrant notion that our lives are somehowdisposable and of little consequent worth against the seemingly unyielding edifice that is White supremacy. The articles in this issue all share a commitment to exploring notions of contestation and asserting alternative truths. Whether through reinvestigating earlier iterations of Black theology thinking, or outlining new ways of interrogating existing religious phenomena, the articles in this issue are seeking to provide new avenues for contesting prevailing notions of Black disposability and the appropriation of Black suffering and pain. Allan Aubrey Boesak is one of the towering elders of the Black theologymovement and we honoured to publish what is his first article in our journal. This article is concerned with the necessity for Black oppressed peoples to cultivate a belief in a \"fighting God\" who is unequivocally committed to Black freedom. Central to this work is the iconic figure of Steve Biko. Even though Biko’s reflections on Black theology per se were sparse, they are extremely important in Boesak’s view, as they open up new avenues for Black theological reflection and praxis as regards the fundamental questions of integrity and authenticity in global struggles for freedom, equity and dignity. Boesak’s believes that in these struggles Black liberation theology is not only relevant but necessary. This article discusses the contexts within which modern South African Black theology came into being. It explores Biko’s definitions of Black theology and how they can give rise to a renewed praxis in post-apartheid South Africa and beyond. J. Andrew Calloway’s article explores the interface between what remains the major polarized philosophical and theological fault line in Black theology, namely, the divide between James H. Cone and William R. Jones. The former’s","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"199 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842164","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42340082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Labour of Black Love: James Cone, Womanism, and the Future of Black Men’s Theologies","authors":"Marvin E. Wickware","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1792744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1792744","url":null,"abstract":"Following James Cone’s death, black male theologians must ask how we might properly honour his influence upon our ongoing work, while reckoning with its limits in relation to his struggle to fully ...","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1792744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45769399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Empire","authors":"Anthony G. Reddie","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1781342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1781342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"193 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1781342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47385369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Joy unspeakable: contemplative practices of the black church","authors":"Edgar “Trey” Clark","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1781340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1781340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"188 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1781340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49054983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Anthony G. Reddie","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1785732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1785732","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial is written against the backdrop of the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement following the callous murder of George Floyd at the hand of the police in Minneapolis. As heinous as George Floyd’s murder was, we need to recognize that most Black people do not experience the same extreme level of police violence, in their daily operations of life. Rather, what we face is a litany of often covert forms of racism that are not so visible and dramatic as brutal murder caught on camera. The racism that many of us experience is systemic in nature, often hidden in “plain sight”, which the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed as being more than just our paranoia or having “chips on our shoulders”. The “Black Lives Matter” movement emerged to counter the patently obvious fact that, throughout the so-called “developed” world, Black lives do not matter. This is not just a question of economics or materiality; it is also about seemingly intangible matters such as the impact of racism on our psyche and associated questions of representation and spirituality. The articles in this issue all address aspects of Black Lives Matter in the differing thematic and intellectual frameworks deployed by the various authors. The creation of Black theology, first as a lived, experiential resource responding to the terror of slavery and Black oppression on the plantations of the Americas and the Caribbean, to becoming a systematic, rational study of the nature and the being of God in response to the continued negation of Blackness in the latter half of the twentieth century; this intellectual movement has always asserted that Black Lives Matter. Given this overarching theme for this issue, it is no wonder, then, that we should commence it with an extended piece detailing the life and intellectual biography of the greatest of all Black theologians, the inimitable, James Hal Cone. This piece is the longest article we have ever published in this journal, but it is fitting to do so, as one could legitimately argue that the discipline of Black theology, and therefore, this journal might not exists without James Cone. The need to assert that Black Lives Matter is in itself an outrage. The many years of White silence and inertia is a testament to a culture in which the normality of White supremacy was so embedded in our structures and systems that most decent, law abiding, White people remained untroubled at the existence of Black suffering and pain. The articles in this issue are a poignant reminder of the substantive cause that lies at the heart of Black theology, namely, that of Black agency and self determination as a riposte to the stultifying presence of anti-Black racism and White supremacy.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"109 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1785732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}