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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967739803321

Autore

Clark Jawanza Eric

Titolo

Indigenous Black Theology : 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

9781283737050

1283737051

9781137002839

1137002832

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

230.089/96073

Soggetti

Religion - History

Race

Theology

African Americans

Culture

Christianity

Black theology

History of Religion

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Christian Theology

African American Culture

Black Theology

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.