Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2257053
Ronald B. Neal
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2255775
Selina R. Stone
ABSTRACTThis article builds upon Anthony Reddie's Theologising Brexit by offering a womanist perspective in response to his postcolonial and liberationist critique. In keeping with the framing of Reddie's argument I begin with history, by drawing on feminist historians which demonstrate that British enslavement, colonialism and mission should be understood as gendered as well as racialised forms of oppression in Africa and the Caribbean. In the second section, I critique Britain's “hostile environment” policies and Brexit as continuations of Britain's White supremacist and masculinist colonial past by centring the experiences of the “Zambrano carers”: predominantly single Black mothers left destitute by the UK government, and Black and Brown Muslim women who have borne the brunt of Islamophobic violence. In the final section I look to Hagar in Delores Williams's Sisters in the Wilderness to theologise Brexit with these women who are marginalised and dehumanised in contemporary British society.KEYWORDS: TheologywomanismBrexitcolonialismpolitics Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Reddie, Theologising Brexit.2 Thomas, “Womanist Theology, Epistemology”.3 Phillips, The Womanist Reader, xxiv.4 I take Stuart Hall’s definition post-colonial as: “an era when everything still takes place in the slipstream of colonialism and hence bears the inscription of the disturbances that colonisation set in motion,” Hall, The Fateful Triangle, 101.5 Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness.6 Reddie, Theologising Brexit, 67.7 Carby, “White Women Listen”, 223.8 Olupona, City of 201 Gods, 15, 106; Olajubu, Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere, 22.9 Olajubu, Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere, 24; Olupona, City of 201 Gods, 107, 208.10 Olupona, City of 201 Gods, 107.11 Federici, “Women, Land Struggles”.12 Allen, “Aba Riots or the Igbo Women's War?”.13 Ibid., 20.14 Ibid., 20.15 Ibid., 11, 12.16 Hastings, The Church in Africa, 1450–1950, 178.17 Ibid.18 Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 122.19 Hastings, The Church in Africa, 178.20 Anum, Mission in Chains, 73–5.21 Levecq, “Jacobus Capitein”, 160–1.22 Hastings, The Church in Africa, 177.23 For a discussion of the prohibition of marriage in America’s “slave codes” see DuCille, “Blacks of the Marrying Kind”, 25–9.24 DuCille, “Blacks of the Marrying Kind,” 41–3.25 Hastings, The Church in Africa, 198.26 Hall, White, Male and Middle Class, 157.27 Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 122.28 Hall, White, Male and Middle Class, 169.29 Home Office. “Derivative Rights of Residence – Ruiz Zambrano Cases”.30 Solanke, “The Impact of Brexit on Black Women,” 148.31 Solanke, “The Impact of Brexit on Black Women, Children and Citizenship,” 151.32 Ibid., 147.33 Hall, White, Male and Middle Class, 169.34 Solanke, “The Impact of Brexit,” 151.35 Cummings, “Ain’t no Black in the (Brexit) Union Jack?” 594.36 Meer, “Racialization and Religion,” 389.37 Kundnani, The End of Tolerance, 128.38 Awan and Zem
摘要本文以安东尼·雷迪的《英国脱欧神化》为基础，以女性主义的视角回应其后殖民主义和自由主义的批判。为了与Reddie的论点框架保持一致，我从历史开始，通过引用女权主义历史学家来证明英国的奴役，殖民主义和传教应该被理解为性别和种族化形式的压迫在非洲和加勒比地区。在第二部分中，我以“桑布拉诺护工”的经历为中心，批评英国的“敌对环境”政策和英国退欧是英国白人至上主义和男性主义殖民历史的延续:主要是单身黑人母亲，被英国政府遗弃在贫困之中，黑人和棕色人种的穆斯林妇女首当其冲地遭受了伊斯兰恐惧症暴力。在最后一部分，我将着眼于德洛丽丝·威廉姆斯的《荒野姐妹》中的黑格，将英国脱欧与这些在当代英国社会中被边缘化和非人化的女性神化。关键词:神学女性主义英国脱欧殖民主义政治披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1 .雷迪:《脱欧神学化》;2 .托马斯:《女性主义神学、认识论》菲利普斯，《女性主义读者》，第24页我认为斯图尔特·霍尔对后殖民的定义是:“一个一切仍在殖民主义的潮流中发生的时代，因此带有殖民主义引发的骚乱的印记，”霍尔，命运的三角，101.5威廉姆斯，荒野中的姐妹。6瑞迪，神学化英国脱欧，67.7卡比，“白人女性倾听”，223.8奥鲁波纳，201神之城，15,106;奥拉朱布，约鲁巴宗教界的妇女，22.9奥拉朱布，约鲁巴宗教界的妇女，24;奥鲁波纳，201神之城，107,208.10奥鲁波纳，201神之城，107.11费德里奇，“妇女，土地斗争”。12阿坝暴动还是伊博妇女战争同上，2014年同上，2015年同上，11月，12.16黑斯廷斯，《非洲教会》，1450-1950年，178.17同上，18巴巴，《文化的位置》，122.19黑斯廷斯，《非洲教会》，178.20阿努姆，《锁链中的使命》，73-5.21莱韦克，《雅各布斯的首领》，160-1.22黑斯廷斯，《非洲教会》，177.23关于美国“奴隶法典”中禁止婚姻的讨论，见杜西尔，《结婚的黑人》，25-9.24杜西尔，《结婚的黑人》，41-3.25黑斯廷斯，非洲教会，198.26霍尔，白人，男性和中产阶级，157.27巴巴，文化的位置，122.28霍尔，白人，男性和中产阶级，169.29内政部。衍生居住权- Ruiz Zambrano案件>，第30页索兰克，“英国脱欧对黑人女性的影响”，148.31索兰克，“英国脱欧对黑人妇女、儿童和公民身份的影响”，151.32同上，147.33霍尔，白人，男性和中产阶级，169.34索兰克，“英国脱欧的影响”，151.35卡明斯，“(英国脱欧)国旗上没有黑人吗?”594.36 Meer，“种族化与宗教”，389.37 Kundnani，“宽容的终结”，128.38 Awan和Zempi，“‘你们看起来都一样’，”585-602.39 Swami等人，“脱欧或不脱欧”，156-79.40告诉MAMA，性别反穆斯林仇恨和伊斯兰恐惧症，3.41 Zempi，“戴面纱的穆斯林妇女的反应”，96-111;告诉MAMA，性别反穆斯林仇恨，3.42 Awan和Zempi，“反穆斯林仇恨犯罪的影响”，37.43 Sivanandan，“贫困是新的黑人”，2.44 Rzepnikowska，“种族主义和仇外心理”，63.45同上，65.46同上，70.47同上，68-71.48威廉姆斯，荒野中的姐妹，15-31.49 Riffat Hassan，“伊斯兰夏加尔和她的家庭”，夏加尔，莎拉和他们的孩子，Phyllis Trible和Letty M. Russell，编辑(路易斯维尔，肯塔基州):威斯敏斯特约翰诺克斯出版社，2006)，149-170.50同上，2-3.51同上，18.52同上，19.53创世记16:9(所有经文参考均取自NIV)威廉姆斯，《旷野中的姐妹》，20.55同上，16-7.56《创世记》21:9-10.57《创世记》21:18-21;威廉姆斯，《荒野的姐妹》，28-9.58。作者简介:Selina R. Stone作者Selina R. Stone是杜伦大学神学教育博士后助理研究员。她是《精神与身体:走向女性主义的五旬节派社会正义伦理》(Brill/Schöningh, 2023)和一系列广泛的期刊文章、章节和书评的作者。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-08DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2257052
Luke Larner
"Faith In Unions: Racism and Religious Exclusion in the Faith Workers Branch of Unite the Union 2017–2020." Black Theology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2255776
Nick Megoran
This interdisciplinary article reflects theologically on what it means to be treated ethically under regimes of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the neoliberal workplace. In replacing older models of personnel management, HRM has achieved a position of dominance that raises important pastoral and ethical questions about recognition of the personhood of workers. This article contends that because critical work on HRM within the social sciences has failed to fully engage with these fundamental questions, a turn to Black theological anthropology is invaluable in understanding the ethico-political implications of HRM. Arguing that lived experiences of “the worker” are commonly missing from theological reflection on work, it advocates the interdisciplinary use of empirical research methods from the social sciences to populate the theology of work with real workers.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2257050
Andrew Boakye
"Black scholars matter: visions, struggles, and hopes in Africana Biblical studies." Black Theology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“黑人学者很重要:非洲圣经研究中的愿景、斗争和希望。”《黑人神学》，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2256597
Michael T. Miller
This article examines two figures from the early twentieth century beginnings of the Hebrew Israelite movement. Malinda Morris was a central, though forgotten, figure in William Crowdy’s Church of God and Saints of Christ but her creation of an independent Church upon Crowdy’s death has not so far been discussed. The strongest body of evidence regarding this Church is a booklet published by one of their Bishops, A.W. Cook, in Harlem, 1925. This booklet offers biographical, legal, constitutional, and theological information about Cook and his branch of Morris’ Church. Situated at a crucial juncture, at the beginning of the second wave of Hebrew Israelite preachers and congregations, Cook’s booklet offers some important insights into the development of foundational narratives of the movement, as well as allows us to reconstruct some of the life of this forlorn thinker and minister, and his leader Malinda Morris.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2256598
Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke, Kizito Chinedu Nweke
At this stage of Christianity in Nigeria, the question: “why do we fight with each other?” is not just relevant but cogent. Since the 1880s when Christianity arrived the southern part of Nigeria, there has been rivalry among the Christian denominations – from the struggle for territorial and numerical dominance, to antagonism in educational, political and social spheres. Sadly, this disunity has weakened Christianity as a force to check the excesses of the government and the lopsided policies that are not in the interest of the largely Christian populace. While Christians bicker and betray each other for denominational gains, the whole nation decays to the detriment of all. In this article, we exposed how Christianity came as denominations in Nigeria, provided a critical appraisal of denominationality and the ills of denominationalism. Then, we proffered inter-denominationality (not denominationalism) as the preferable orientation from denominationality for a better Christian relationality in Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2255774
Christopher Hunt
ABSTRACT Through an examination of The Amen Corner and Just Above My Head, this essay explores James Baldwin’s disidentification with Christian conversion. According to queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz, to disidentify with an object is not to embrace (identify) or reject (counteridentify) a phenomenon, but it is a “working on, with, and against a cultural form.” In The Amen Corner Baldwin, to borrow the language of Muñoz, “transfigures” conversion from signifying the entry of a new convert into a life of faith, to reimagining conversion/salvation as the abandonment of Christian belief and the leaving of ecclesiastical community for the higher call of love. While in Just Above My Head, conversion is reinterpreted through the medium of queer sexual expression, which simultaneously sanctifies queer sexuality, while also utilizing the sex act as a fecund space for reimagining the sacred and salvation.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2234160
Brigid Maya Douglas
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