Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1955180
Nathan D. Wood-House
ABSTRACT This essay explores Conjure, a magical tradition unique to the African American Diaspora in the United States. Conjure exemplifies the religio-ethical significance of what this essay names enfleshed memory: remembering and rearticulating sacred knowledge at the intersectional site of the human body. Enfleshed memory is integral to Conjure for healing and resistance as a dual means of survival among the African American diaspora to the present. Therefore, enfleshed memory is evaluated as a critical locus in which echoes of this magical tradition resound in contemporary African American Christianity. The origins and characteristics of Conjure are explored, with an emphasis on the role of enfleshed memory. Reverberations of Conjure are then identified in African American Christianity in the ethnohistorical and religious scholarship of LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant’s research on Gullah/Geechee women (2014). Finally, these echoes are elucidated in the terms of “microhistory” and “countermemory,” categories developed by womanist theo-ethicist Emilie M. Townes (2006).
摘要本文探讨了散居美国的非裔美国人特有的一种魔法传统——“招魂”。《召唤》举例说明了这篇文章所称的血肉记忆的宗教伦理意义:在人体的交叉点上记忆和重新表达神圣的知识。作为非裔美国人散居到现在的双重生存手段，植入的记忆对于愈合和抵抗是不可或缺的。因此，在当代非裔美国人基督教中，这种神奇传统的回声被评价为一个关键的地点。本文探讨了《Conjure》的起源和特点，并强调了植入记忆的作用。随后，在LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant对Gullah/Geechee妇女的研究(2014)的民族历史和宗教学术研究中，发现了召唤的回响在非裔美国基督教中的作用。最后，这些呼应在“微观历史”和“反记忆”的术语中得到了阐释，这是由女性主义神学伦理学家艾米丽·m·汤斯(Emilie M. Townes, 2006)提出的范畴。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1954373
Ronald B. Neal
argued way, an important topic especially within Africana interpretive contexts of religion, theology, and biblical scholarship. What, in my view, makes the volume unique and thus interesting is that it deviates from others, especially those in the field of Hebrew Bible studies in terms of its treatment of the biblical Hagar character, by enlisting material from other disciplines such as African American History, Classics, Literature as well as Islamic studies among others, thus foregrounding the need for multi-interand trans-disciplinary studies in the scholars’ engagement with the biblical text. What I find missing though is the author’s omission of a deliberate engagement with the theme of the book’s function in the context of race studies, especially in a context that still sets great store by white supremacy like the U.S. One would certainly recommend Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible to Bible, Theology and Religion scholars and students and the laity in general, and especially those with a keen interest in the (Hebrew) Bible and race studies and in the recovery of the Black presence in the Christian Bible.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1954370
David Isiorho
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1955179
Willy L. Mafuta, C. Kaunda
ABSTRACT Drawing from John Hick’s soteriological criterion of religious pluralism (in his notion of saintliness and morality), this essay questions the validity of the Christian putative, normative status to establish Christian-like features for other religions to be considered a “world religion”. This essay claims that with a modern understanding of the globalized world, it is no longer the norm for a non-Christian religion to meet Christian-like features to be considered a “world religion”. Instead, a universal model is gaining its reality through concrete particularizations, where no one religion can claim to serve as the clear and dominant standard for any other. In this sense, this essay attempts to re-imagine and construct African Traditional Religions, particularly the Zulu religion, its deity, uNkulunkulu, and its moral fabric, as a religious particularization of the global systems.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1955178
M. S. Kgatle
ABSTRACT Pentecostal worship is widely studied with but little attention given to its link with a spirituality of liberation. This article uses literary analysis to demonstrate that African Pentecostal Worship (hereafter APW) is an expression of a spirituality of liberation with implications for Black theology. In order to achieve this, the article introduces Black theology within the theoretical framework of a spirituality of liberation. APW, an African style of worship, is discussed in relation to African Pentecostalism and Blackness. Three aspects of APW are discussed; a Spirit of liberation, the music of liberation and the sermons of liberation to illustrate their connection to a Spirituality of liberation. This Spirituality of liberation in APW has some implications for Black theology as it challenges Black theologians to incorporate African Pentecostalism in their studies. Therefore, Black theologians can no longer ignore the contribution of African Pentecostalism to the development of Black theology in Africa.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1948712
Carol Troupe
ABSTRACT As part of the Council for World Mission’s Legacies of Slavery project, the author, from her perspective as a descendant of enslaved Africans, explores the themes that emerged during her initial encounter with historical missionary magazine material. Drawing on insights from Black and Womanist theologies, she asks questions about what reflection on these themes can offer to contemporary practice and church mission.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1954371
Michael N. Jagessar
doubt that this will be an effective strategy for change. It is possible that powerful groups within the church will become even more entrenched in their failure to appoint UKME/ GMH people. When this report tells us that Black Church members, despite being highly qualified and experienced, are continually passed over by the overwhelmingly White church systems nothing new is being added to our knowledge base. Black people know this even if White Church people do not want to acknowledge it and must be reminded time and time again. But to whom is this report addressed? Presumably, those who have the power to change things. Who can tell in the strange world and culture of the Church of England? So, do we really need yet another report that draws the conclusion that a great resource for the Church is being underused and marginalized? Yes, we know this. This is the lived experience of Black Christians, particularly their clergy who seek to represent Christ to the world. It is not unlike saying that slum environments prevent academic learning. I understand the contributors of this report would be keen to commission new research to make some sense of the Church of England’s theological foundations of prejudice and discrimination. In this context, I hope they will welcome this review as an initial and meaningful contribution to that process. I do not doubt the sincerity of the writers, but will the Church of England deliver on the recommendations that would seriously change its life and culture as an institutionally racist institution? Some of the recommendations are crucial, others are not so important, so it would not be difficult for readers to predict which ones are likely to succeed. So, will anything change? From Lament to Action runs the tightrope between the optimistic and the naive. This is something readers will have to decide for themselves. Clearly time will tell, so watch this space, but as I said previously, do not hold your breath.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2021.1895559
Thomas P. Dixon
ABSTRACT This paper places Dr. Martin Luther King and Martin Luther in conversation in order to compare their polyvalent engagements with law in protest speech. Each figure viewed God’s law dialogically and applied this tension to complex censure of unjust human laws, fostering protest that was combative yet constructive. Both insisted on the grounding of human laws in the law of God, and both invoked divine judgment on those in power who misused law to exploit and oppress. Luther marshalled the Apostle Paul to denounce the captivity imposed upon the German people by ecclesiastical authority; King echoed Israel’s prophets (as well as Paul) to threaten the unjust state in the battle for civil rights legislation. Although in drastically different circumstances, the purpose and character of “law” lay at the heart of each movement, particularly because both King and Luther were protesting laws entrenched in putatively Christian nations.
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