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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785957403321

Autore

Clark J

Titolo

Indigenous Black Theology [[electronic resource] ] : Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience / / by J. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-73705-1

1-137-00283-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Disciplina

230.089/96073

230.08996073

Soggetti

Religion—History

Ethnicity

Theology

African Americans

Christianity

Black theology

History of Religion

Ethnicity Studies

Christian Theology

African American Culture

Black Theology

Africa Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Author's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "I Once Was Lost, But Now I'm Found": The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment; 2 The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique; 3 Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who Are the Ancestors?; 4 Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors; 5 The Dead Are Not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies;



Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.