Religion of the Field Negro : : On Black Secularism and Black Theology / / Vincent W. Lloyd.

Black theology has lost its direction. To reclaim its original power and to advance racial justice struggles today black theology must fully embrace blackness and theology. But multiculturalism and religious pluralism have boxed in black theology, forcing it to speak in terms dictated by a power str...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • Introduction
  • part I. Cornerstones
  • chapter 1. Cone
  • chapter 2. Baldwin
  • chapter 3. Mbembe
  • chapter 4. Derrida, Agamben, Wynter
  • part II. Questions
  • chapter 5. What Is Black Tradition?
  • chapter 6. What Is Black Organizing?
  • chapter 7. For What Are Blacks to Hope? In
  • chapter 8. For What Are Whites to Hope?
  • part III. Exempla
  • chapter 9. The Revelation of Race: On Steve Biko
  • chapter 10. The Racial Messiah: On Huey P. Newton
  • chapter 11. The Postracial Saint: On Barack Obama
  • chapter 12. The Race of the Soul: On Gillian Rose
  • Coda: The Birth of the Black Church
  • notes
  • bibliography
  • index