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Record Nr.

UNINA9910592988803321

Autore

Buhring Kurt

Titolo

Spirit(s) in Black Religion : Fire on the Inside / / by Kurt Buhring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031098871

9783031098864

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 313 pages)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, , 2945-6983

Disciplina

230.08996073

230.08996

Soggetti

Liberation theology

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

African literature

African languages

Liberation Theology

African Culture

African Literature

African Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Spirit(s) in Africa: African Traditional Religions -- 3. The Spirit(s) in the Diaspora: African-Derived Religions -- 4. The Spirit(s) in Slavery: African American Christianity -- 5. The Spirit in the Sanctified Church -- 6. The Spirit in Modern Black Theology and Religion -- 7. The Spirit in Contemporary Black Theology and Religion -- 8. A Theology of the Spirit(s).

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich resources within African and African-based religions to develop a more robust notion of the Holy Spirit for contemporary Black liberation theology. In



so doing, Buhring offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action. The theology offered maintains the fundamental claim that God acts as liberator of the oppressed, while also calling for greater human responsibility and capability for bringing about liberation.