Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2180136
Victor Anderson
ABSTRACT Framed in the mode of an interview, this essay responds to questions surrounding the publication of Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism (1995) in light of contemporary moves in Black studies, including Black religion and culture studies. The contemporary relevancy of the form of religious and cultural criticism presented in the book is the topic of the dialogue among contributors. My postmodern iconoclastic critique of Black essentialism—cultural, racial, or heroic—in favor of a grotesque aesthetic, which accents the comedic interplay of unresolved ambiguity and a Nietzschean robust pessimism filled with laughter, is rearticulated in light of the 21st century challenges and provocations of the religious situation discussed by the guest co-editors and contributors. Readers will discover a generous generational dialogue that models a commendable Black scholarly aesthetic.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2023.2180132
M. R. Fisher
ABSTRACT Published in 1995, Victor Anderson’s Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum Press) provocatively challenged the racial apologetics of Black scholars in Black Studies, whose arguments, he argued, are predicated on an “ontological Blackness” that perpetuates the very essentialist discourse that they rejected. Anderson’s work continues to trouble the waters of philosophical, political, and religious thought on race, culture, and identity. This essay introduces the special issue of Black Theology: An International Journal in honour of the near-thirtieth anniversary of Beyond Ontological Blackness.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2133423
Timothy R. Judson
ABSTRACT This paper will argue that Whiteness must be addressed within White contexts as a challenge to the prevalent colour-blindness, which distorts our imaginative horizons and presents a warped gospel aesthetic. In other words, Whites like myself need to use our agency to reckon with and repent of Whiteness at the behest of our Black sisters and brothers. Otherwise, attempts to appropriate lament into corporate worship will be reduced to voyeurism, individualism and consumerism. I will mainly interact with James Cone and Anthony Reddie, both of whom critique the way Black suffering can become overlooked or usurped. Within the paper, some tentative suggestions will be made on how to proceed with appropriating lament into corporate worship, lest our theology and practices unwittingly (or intentionally) bury those who suffer beneath the veneer of false peace and colour-blindness.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2135071
Israel Selvanayagam
ABSTRACT Victims cursing the victimisers is a common feature in the practice of the Tamils as evident in literature and films. There are statements about the power of justice and weapons of curse which warn culprits against dangerous consequences for their action. There is a story of a rare woman who by her curse burned an unjust king and his city and she has been deified and made popular. In the Bible as well, there are stories of victims including the Yahweh God and Jesus who pronounced powerful words on the victimiser(s). Their reflection incorporates the nuances, including catharsis and inner healing, instigating the change of heart of the victimisers, self-suffering as expression of compassion and positive action. Suggesting to bring back cursing as an authentic act of the victims, the essay provides a means for challenging the stereotypes of “blessing” and organising collective cursing for international powers that perpetuate poverty and conflict.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2136593
Tessa D. Henry-Robinson
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2135070
F. Uroko
ABSTRACT This article examines Yahweh's response to corruption in Amos 8:4-10. In the pericope, the rich ensured that the poor remained poor. The situation of Israel in the eighth century is a reflection of the present situation of the people of the Niger Delta. Although some studies have focused on the poor in the Niger Delta, many of the existing works have generally paid less attention to the corruption in Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which has sustained the poverty situation in the area. Using literary analysis methodology for the text, findings reveal that the underdevelopment in the Niger Delta region is also caused by the unchecked corrupt practices, financial recklessness, and diabolic activities in NDDC. The recommendations are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2133424
O. Buffel
ABSTRACT Clinical Pastoral Education is an important part of an educational process of pastoral ministry. It is also a gift that can potentially contribute meaningfully to facilitating contextual, affordable pastoral ministry for Black communities in South Africa. This article argues that for CPE to have space and a future it must be contextual and liberating. It must respond appropriately to the conditions, realities and needs of Black communities who bear the brunt of poverty and associated socio-economic-cultural and conditions. In the U.S.A context, CPE has always been a response to the conditions, realities and needs of the Americans. Equally, in the South African context, CPE cannot afford to ignore “the living human documents” (the living human web), whose realities are different from those of Americans. CPE must acknowledge that it is part of the broader field of pastoral care, which is based on Western-dominated theories. It must be inclusive and listen carefully to Black communities.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2136592
A. Clark
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2094598
A. Lepine
As a priest, theologian, art historian, Canadian, Queer, white woman, I have received Jarel Robinson-Brown’s words as longed-for and profoundly challenging gifts. He offers his book Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer to all, though I am aware that, like Toni Morrison’s novels and James Baldwin’s essays, these words of theology and lived experience have not been written for white audiences. Available to white Christians through Robinson-Brown’s generosity, the only response that can possibly be offered is gratitude. Robinson-Brown’s language of “us,” “we” and “I” open up a space of safety and healing for Black people within and beyond the Church of England. He explains, “it will not do for some to carry crosses while others carry feathers.” (113) The white Christian, he implores, “must use their body, ‘take up their cross and follow’ Jesus, and quit faking discipleship.”(113) Robinson-Brown’s book opens a space for reckoning and critical anger. His work, like Azariah France-Williams, Jide Macaulay, and Anthony Reddie, is the theological equivalent of art exhibitions such as Kehinde Wiley’s The Prelude at the National Gallery, with its subversion of whiteness within European Christian art histories, as well as Sonia Boyce’s Feeling Her Way at the Venice Biennale’s British Pavilion. These public celebrations of Black life in the midst of so much pain exemplify the nonbinary Black Episcopal priest and activist Pauli Murray’s belief that “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” In February 2021, the Church Times published an essay by Robinson-Brown on rage, prophecy, and racism. Focusing on Jeremiah, he explains,
作为一名牧师、神学家、艺术史学家、加拿大人、酷儿、白人女性，我收到了贾雷尔·罗宾逊·布朗的话，这是我渴望的、极具挑战性的礼物。他向所有人提供了他的书《黑人、同性恋、英国人、基督徒、酷儿》，尽管我知道，就像托尼·莫里森的小说和詹姆斯·鲍德温的散文一样，这些神学和生活经验的话语并不是为白人观众写的。通过罗宾逊·布朗的慷慨，白人基督徒可以得到的唯一回应就是感激。罗宾逊·布朗的“我们”、“我们”和“我”的语言为英国教会内外的黑人开辟了一个安全和治愈的空间。他解释说，“有些人带十字架，而另一些人带羽毛是不行的。”（113）他恳求白人基督徒“必须使用他们的身体，‘拿起十字架跟随’耶稣，停止假装门徒身份。”。他的作品，如阿扎里亚·弗朗斯·威廉姆斯（Azariah France Williams）、吉德·麦考利（Jide Macaulay）和安东尼·雷迪（Anthony Reddie。这些对黑人生活在如此痛苦中的公开庆祝活动，体现了非二元黑人圣公会牧师和活动家保利·默里的信念，即“希望是疲惫喉咙里的一首歌。”2021年2月，《教会时报》发表了罗宾逊·布朗关于愤怒、预言和种族主义的文章。他解释说，以杰里迈亚为中心，
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.2085910
Eugene Baron
ABSTRACT There is still long way to go in terms of reconciliation and social cohesion, especially against the background of the recent resurgence of ethnic and racial overtones in South Africa. The author engages this phenomenon and the manifestation through a conversation with the Black consciousness thought of Steve Biko, but particular his statement: “Black man, you’re on your own!” The author uses this statement as part of Biko’s Black consciousness thought to function in this paper as a theoretical framework to reflect on how South Africans and the post-apartheid government should espouse (not only celebrate) the ideology of Steve Biko in policy and practice. The author engages the experiences of the “Coloured” people in South Africa as a case study for what it would mean to embrace Biko’s thought in policy and practice in the quest for social cohesion in the post-apartheid context.
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