A theologian revisits the Black Theology of Liberation, giving it a rational and spiritual update for the post-civil rights world. Hopkins discusses feminine spirituality and black-on-black homophobia in this updated theology.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Will Coleman1. Slave Theology in the "Invisible Institution" by Dwight N. Hopkins2. The Slave Narratives as a Source of Black Theological Discourse: The Spirit and Eschatology by George C. L. Cummings3. "Coming through 'Ligion": Metaphor in Non-Christian and Christian Experiences with the Spirit(s) in African ...
A decisive turn in the development of religious reflection, this volume seeks to redefine disciplinary self-understanding, and to promote religion as an integral component of cultural studies.
Simultaneously arising out of such diverse contexts as the black community in the United States, grassroots religious communities in Latin America, and feminist circles in North Atlantic countries, theologies of liberation have emerged as a resource and inspiration for people seeking social and political freedom. Over the last three decades, ...
For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion has also served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political ...
Original and far-reaching, this book shows the resources for Black theology within the living tradition of African-American religion and culture. Beginning with the slave narratives, Hopkins tells how slaves received their masters' faith and transformed it into a gospel of liberation. Resources include the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, ...
For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion has also served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political ...
Global Voices for Gender Justice is an detailed collection of essays written by theologians from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and U.S. minority groups who share their theological analysis of gender issues.
Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined "the human" as one eternal or inviolable essence, however, Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in ...
A decisive turn in the development of religious reflection, this volume seeks to redefine disciplinary self-understanding, and to promote religion as an integral component of cultural studies.
Hopkins contends that the lives of enslaved African Americans were the foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today. Down, Up, and Over draws on their religious experience, and the example of their faith and witness, to develop a constructive theology of liberation. "African American belief structures and hope ...
Whether concerned with health, law, ethics, social relations, or relationship with God, religious thought today runs squarely into the question: what does it mean to be human? Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated classic theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on ...
Through a critical analysis of leading religious thinkers, Hopkins explores the fundamental differences and similarities between black theology in the United States and black theology in South Africa.
"Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples" represents voices of darker skin peoples throughout the world. What they have in common is their mobilizing their own created religions and spiritualities to forge self-identities. Some claim direct links to centuries of indigenous spiritual practices which have ...
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