BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1895461
Michael N. Jagessar
{"title":"Revolutionary change and democratic religion: Christianity, Vodou and Secularism","authors":"Michael N. Jagessar","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1895461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"95 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47022124","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1883350
C. Ullrich
{"title":"Theopoetics from Below: A South African Black Christological Encounter with Radical Theology","authors":"C. Ullrich","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1883350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1883350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Given the evidence of Black suffering more than two and half decades after apartheid, this paper proceeds on the premise that theology cannot continue as business per usual. It attempts to stage a critical and creative encounter between the radical theology of the philosopher, John D. Caputo and the liberation Christology of the South African theologian, Takatso Mofokeng. It demonstrates both the commonalities and limits of their respective accounts and suggests that radical theology and liberation Christology supplement each other in critically-constructive ways. Liberation Christology’s criticism of power, institution, and Western modes of theological discourse, which it shares with radical theology, supplements the latter’s somewhat abstract account of “the event” with the particularity of Black experience. Radical theology, on the other hand, offers Black Christology a way to be critical of its own metaphysical claims, as well as its tendency to mimic the oppressor in its categories of positive identification.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"53 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1883350","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47061077","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1895458
J. Floyd-Thomas
{"title":"After Trump: Achieving a New Social Gospel","authors":"J. Floyd-Thomas","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1895458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"90 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44757185","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1896841
Marvin E. Wickware
{"title":"The Labour of Black Love: James Cone, Womanism, and the Future of Black Men’s Theologies","authors":"Marvin E. Wickware","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1896841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1896841","url":null,"abstract":"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 appreciate womanist critiques. This article focuses on love as a central theme in Cone’s theology, engaging with Cone’s work, as well as Delores Williams’s Sisters in the Wilderness and Hortense Spillers’s “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” This article proposes that Cone fails to address the injustice inherent in accepting the affective labour of love as women’s work. As a disciplinary intervention, this article suggests that Black male theologians must open ourselves to being transformed and fully drawn into that labour of love. As a constructive theological argument, this article finds a point of consonance between Cone’s and Williams’s Christologies. Jesus embraced freedom guided by love, offering ministerial vision to many, rejecting imperial power on and of the cross.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"3 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1896841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46168621","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1897097
J. Powell
{"title":"Ital Hermeneutics: The Innovative Theological Grounding of Rastafari Dietary (Ietary) Practices","authors":"J. Powell","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1897097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1897097","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Rastafari movement stands as one of the most instantly recognizable and socially influential spiritual groups of the last century. Having successfully crossed into the realm of popular culture with the worldwide popularity of reggae music, the movement has been able to achieve a level of recognition from the global public that other contemporary religious groups have not. However, knowledge of the groups’ practices and beliefs beyond reggae, the veneration of ganja (cannabis) and recognition of the divinity of His Majesty Haile Selassie remains limited. This is very much the case amongst Rastafari dietary practices, something central to the daily observance of all Rastafari, and yet a facet underexplored in academic circles. As such, this study aims to draw attention to an integral component of Rastafari spirituality through interviews conducted in Jamaica and the UK, whilst also formulating and exploring an innovative Rastafari hermeneutical approach.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"32 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1897097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47363067","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1895462
D. Adamo
{"title":"The Portrayal of Africa and Africans in the Book of Psalms","authors":"D. Adamo","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2021.1895462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895462","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There are more than 20 references to Africa and Africans in the book of Psalms.Unfortunately, not much attention has been paid to this Psalmic portrayal of Africa and Africans. The book portrays Africa and Africans as enemies, and oppressors of ancient Israel, as an arena, and instrument of Yahweh’s salvation. They are instrument and recipient of Yahweh's judgment. The main reason for such frequent references to Africa and Africans in the book of the psalm is not only because they are familiar with Africans but they are highly respected and mighty in power. Their black skin colour also bring their respectable identity. (Isa 18:1-6).Psalm 68 31 has also been part of the slory of colonization, pan-Africaanism enslavement, civilizing mission, and self-liberation.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"19 1","pages":"71 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2021.1895462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44084574","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2020.1842160
A. Boesak
{"title":"Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Violence in Africa, Biblical, Pastoral, and Ethical Perspectives","authors":"A. Boesak","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1842160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842160","url":null,"abstract":"This book, the editors inform us, is the result of an inter- and trans-disciplinary engagement with three ethical themes from an African perspective by researchers from Stellenbosch University. The...","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"299 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1842160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44478037","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2020.1841910
B. Senokoane
{"title":"A Black Reading of “The Parable of the Talents”","authors":"B. Senokoane","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1841910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1841910","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The explanation of Biblical texts has often been left unquestionable by both believers and unbelievers. This has led to absorbing problematic explanations. This culture of not questioning has become a problem of making the Bible a tool of miseducation, suppression and exploitation. Above everything, Black believers tend to read, translate and interpret the Bible through “White/masters eyes.” This article aims to conscientize Blacks or the working class to read the Bible from their perspective and experiences. In this context, Blacks are to be understood as the working class who should problematize “The Parable of the Talents.” The article will argue that “The Parable of the Talents” has been read wrongly and will propose a new way of reading this parable.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"288 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1841910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42987356","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}
BLACK THEOLOGYPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2020.1828790
A. Boesak
{"title":"The Need for “A Fighting God”: Biko, Black Theology and the Essence of Revolutionary Authenticity","authors":"A. Boesak","doi":"10.1080/14769948.2020.1828790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2020.1828790","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is an upsurge of renewed interest in South Africa in Black Consciousness, Black theology and consequently in the work of Steven Bantu Biko who remains a central figure for a movement that now seems to inspire a new generation, especially pertaining to the raging debates on Africanity, decolonisation, and Africanisation. This author believes that this resurgence presents an historic moment that calls for a serious re-examination of Biko’s thought. Even though Biko’s reflections on Black theology per se were sparse, they are extremely important in my view, and 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. It is my view 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, explores Biko’s definitions of Black theology, and the ways in which Biko’s understanding of Black theology searching for “a fighting God” and Black theology as “not a theology of absolutes” opens up the possibilities for enriching the meaning and relevance of Black theology today.","PeriodicalId":42729,"journal":{"name":"BLACK THEOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"201 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769948.2020.1828790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43490992","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}