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1 online resource |
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Black religion/ womanist thought/social justice |
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Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: Why a White Christ Continues to Be Racist: The Legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr.; The black Messiah-Albert Cleage's Christology; Summary of Chapters; Notes; Part I: Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s Theology and Politics; Chapter 2: The Theological Journey of Albert B. Cleage Jr.: Reflections from Jaramogi's Protégé and Successor; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Nothing Is More Sacred Than the Liberation of Black People: Albert Cleage's Method as Unfulfilled Theological Paradigm Shift |
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The Problem of Ontological BlacknessA Pragmatic Theological Method; Cleage's Doctrine of God-Cosmic Energy and Creative Intelligence; Notes; Chapter 4: "We Needed Both of Them": The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman's) Radical Interpretations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Scholarship and Black Protest Thought; Introduction; Martin and Malcolm in Cleage's Radical Homiletics; Enduring Scholarship on Martin and Malcolm: Rev. Cleage's Politico-theological and Intellectual Legacy?; Concluding Reflections; Notes |
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Chapter 5: The Black Messiah and Black SufferingIntroduction; Theodicy; Black Suffering; Albert Cleage and the Pan African Orthodox Church of Christ; Major Beliefs and Rituals; Sin, Evil, and Suffering; Critique and Analysis of Cleage's and PAOCC Theodicy; Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?; Notes; Chapter 6: Politics Is Sacred: The Activism of Albert B. Cleage Jr.; Traditional Political Impact; Notes; Part II: Representations of the Black Madonna and Child, Christian Education, and Pastoral Care; Chapter 7: The Black Madonna and the Role of Women; Maia; Jendai; Deborah; Rehema; Maxine |
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AngelaMichelle; Binah; Andretta; Jaribu; Notes; Chapter 8: Black Power and Black Madonna: Charting the Aesthetic Influence of Rev. Albert Cleage, Glanton Dowdell & the Shrine of the Black Madonna, #1; A Collective Vision: The black Madonna Chancel Mural; Making the black Madonna Visible: Critical Reception and the Circulation of the Image; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: The Power of a Black Christology: Africana Pastoral Theology Reflects on Black Divinity; Introduction; The Black Consciousness Movement; A Vignette; Black Power and Black Theology; What is Africana Pastoral Theology? |
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Re-envisioning a Black God and Black HumanityAfricana as Liberation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 10: Image is Everything? The Significance of the Imago Dei in the Development of African American Youth; Seeing the Image of God: Imago Dei and Black Bodies; Imago Dei and black youth; Reflecting on the Imago Dei with Youth; How Can I Be Like God, When I'm Not Even Seen As Human?; Youth Development in a Culture of Disposability; When Images are not Enough; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11: A Crucified Black Messiah, a Dead Black Love; Introduction; Cleage's Theology and the Black Messiah |
| Summary |
In this collection, black religious scholars and pastors whose expertise range from theology, ethics, and the psychology of religion, to preaching, religious aesthetics, and religious education, discuss the legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the idea of the Black Madonna and child. Easter Sunday, 2017 will mark the fifty year anniversary of Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s unveiling of a mural of the Black Madonna and child in his church in Detroit, Michigan. This unveiling symbolized a radical theological departure and disruption. The mural helped symbolically launch Black Christian Nationalism and influenced the Black Power movement in the United States. But fifty years later, what has been the lasting impact of this act of theological innovation? What is the legacy of Cleage's emphasis on the literal blackness of Jesus? How has the idea of a Black Madonna and child informed notions of black womanhood, motherhood? LGBTQ communities? How has Cleage's theology influenced Christian education, Africana pastoral theology, and the Black Arts Movement? The contributors to this work discuss answers to these and many more questions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2016) |
| Subject |
Cleage, Albert B., Jr., 1911-2000
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| SUBJECT |
Cleage, Albert B., Jr., 1911-2000 fast |
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African Americans -- Religion.
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Black theology.
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Black nationalism -- United States.
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Black Arts movement.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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African Americans -- Religion
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Black Arts movement
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Black nationalism
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Black theology
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Jawanza Eric, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016946227 |
| ISBN |
9781137546890 |
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1137546891 |
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