Dale P. Andrews, Practical Theology for Black Churches: Bridging Black Theology and African American Folk Religion

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Rev. Eric B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Folk Religion

Black Theologies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pimblott
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Womanist Theology ◽  
Black Freedom Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
African American Clergy ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
American Clergy

Black theology burst onto the scene in the late 1960s as a new cohort of progressive African American clergy and seminarians responded to the imperative of a burgeoning black freedom movement and global anticolonial struggles. Taken collectively, their work championed a distinctive black theological tradition, birthed in the context of enslavement and transmitted through independent black churches, which placed primacy on God’s preferential and emancipatory activity on behalf of the poor and oppressed. This chapter traces the origins, development, and legacy of black theology over three consecutive generations, identifying important debates related to the discipline’s defining motifs, methods, and approaches as well as the emergence of alternative paradigms, including womanist theology and African American humanism.

scholarly journals Engaging Religious Institutions to Address Racial Disparities in HIV/AIDS: A Case of Academic-Community Partnership

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Szaflarski ◽  
Lisa M. Vaughn ◽  
Camisha Chambers ◽  
Mamie Harris ◽  
Andrew Ruffner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Faith Leaders ◽  
Primary Strategy

African Americans face the most severe burden of HIV among all racial and ethnic groups. Direct involvement of faith leaders and faith communities is increasingly suggested as a primary strategy to reduce HIV-related disparities, and Black churches are uniquely positioned to address HIV stigma, prevention, and care in African American communities. The authors describe an academic-community partnership to engage Black churches to address HIV in a predominantly African American, urban, southern Midwest location. The opportunities, process, and challenges in forming this academic community partnership with Black churches can be used to guide future efforts toward engaging faith institutions, academia, and other community partners in the fight against HIV.

Practical Theology in Africa: Situation, Approaches, Framework and Agenda Proposition

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vhumani Magezi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Francophone Africa ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Practical Ministry ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
Considerable Discussion

Abstract Practical Theology’s situation in Sub-Saharan Africa is not well documented except in South Africa, despite a strong theological focus on practical ministry across the continent and considerable discussion of African contextual theologies, including African theology, Black theology, reconstruction theology and women’s theology. The article sketches the context by highlighting the gaps in the discussion of Practical Theology. It discusses embedded Practical Theological practices within contextual theologies and surveys Practical Theology’s focus and aspirations across Africa, highlighting practices in Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa and Lusophone Africa. Finally, it deduces a framework for Practical Theology in Africa and identifies the challenges and tasks that should be put on the agenda of Practical Theology.

Wanted Dead or Alive

Pneuma ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-416
Author(s):  
Cheryl Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Black Churches ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Azusa Street Revival ◽  
Azusa Street ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the relationship between black theology and renewal theology and assesses the ongoing relevance of black theology to the mission and future of the black churches. Recent writings by Eddie Glaude, Raphael Warnock, James Cone, and Peter Paris are considered in conversation with the works of Brian Bantam, J. Kameron Carter, and Willie Jennings, whose imaginative attention to Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology provokes thoughtful engagement of issues of race, gender, power, and privilege in the context of renewal and the global impact of Pentecostalism more than a century after the Azusa Street Revival led by William J. Seymour.

Family, Church, Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
Church And Community ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Churches ◽  
Church Organizations

This chapter explores the roles played by family, church, and community in the Black Underground Railroad movement. By mapping Black settlements, it clarifies and exposes the relationship between African American churches, settlements, and historic Underground Railroad routes. It shows how Black families sustained an important family organizational structure that drove the Underground Railroad. It explains how African American communities connected through family relations and intermarriage, church organizations, benevolent societies, and the fraternal structure of the Prince Hall Masons. It considers how maintaining family connections motivated escape from slavery, particularly when imminent sale threatened to break up the family. Finally, it highlights the ways that Black churches and their ministers helped free Blacks, or self-liberated men and women, to succeed in winning freedom for themselves and their loved ones.

Sacramental Shame in Black Churches

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-165
Author(s):  
Theresa W. Tobin ◽  
Dawne Moon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Church Members ◽  
African American Churches ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Conservative Christians ◽  
American Churches

Drawing from a qualitative study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) conservative Christians and their allies, our research names a form of spiritual violence we call sacramental shame that impacts the lives of LGBTQ members. Through this shaming dynamic, homonegative churches make constant displays of endangered belonging a requirement for sexual/gender minorities’ acceptance and even their salvation. This chapter explores how racist discourses impact sacramental shame experiences for African-American LGBTQ church members. African-American churches have long resisted the spiritual violence of white supremacy; however, with the goal of protecting an image of Blackness that defies the sexual stereotypes at the root of white supremacy, they often unwittingly instil in LGBTQ members distinct forms of sacramental shame. At the same time, many in these churches cultivate personal relationships with a liberator God who sides with the oppressed, avenges those who endure injustice, and inspires communal work for justice, promoting a life-enhancing ethos of love.

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