The Cambridge Companion To Black Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052170569X ISBN 13: 9780521705691

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This volume discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented. Part One explores introductory questions such as: what have been the historical and social factors fostering a black theology, and what are some of the internal factors key to its growth? Part Two examines major doctrines which have been important for black theology in terms of clarifying key intellectual foci common to the study of religion. The final part discusses black theology as a world-wide development constituted by interdisciplinary approaches. The volume has an important role in bringing Christian thought into confrontation with one of the central challenges of modernity, namely the problem of race and racism. This Companion puts theological themes in conversation with issues of ethnicity, gender, social analysis, politics and class and is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students.

About this title

Book Description:

A book for undergraduate and graduate students and for those seeking to deepen their understanding of black theology. Its interdisciplinary approach puts theological themes in conversation with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, social analysis, the study of religion, politics, cultural studies, class/economics, history and globalization.

About the Author:

Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has published several books, which include Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion (2005), Heart and Head: Black Theology Past, Present, and Future (2002) and Global Voices for Gender Justice (2001, co-editor with Ramathate Dolamo and Ana Maria Tepedino).

Edward P. Antonio is the Harvey H. Potthoff Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory, and Associate Dean of Diversities at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is editor of Inculturation and Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology (2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 052170569X
• ISBN 13: 9780521705691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Hopkins Dwight N., Antonio Edward P.