Home Away from Home: The Caribbean Diasporan Church in the Black Atlantic Tradition (Cross Cultural Theologies) - Hardcover

Reid-Salmon, Delroy A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845533836 ISBN 13: 9781845533830

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

An estimated two-thirds of Caribbeans live outside their homeland. 'Home Away from Home' identifies the different forms of Caribbean diasporan identity and argues that the faith Caribbean people brought with them into the diaspora plays a central role in their development. The study provides a theological interpretation of the diasporan experience, and outlines the principles of diasporan theology and the distinctiveness of its church. Focusing on the Caribbean diaspora in the US, and analysing aspects of the Caribbean British diaspora, the book forges a Black Atlantic theology. The volume also engages with wider discourse on the Black diaspora to offer an inclusive Caribbean diasporan ecclesiology that overcomes Black African-American/Euro-American binaries.

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About the Author:

Delroy A. Reid-Salmon is the pastor of Grace Baptist Chapel, a 'Diasporan Caribbean Church,' in New York City. He studied at Island University, received a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a holds a Ph. D. in theology from The University of Birmingham, UK. He has written "Out of Every Tribe and Nation" in Post Colonial Black British Theology (Epworth, 2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845533836
• ISBN 13: 9781845533830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244