scholarly journals TRACES OF BLACK FREEDOM IN THE MACHINE: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DIGITAL BLACK RELIGION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Gault
Keyword(s):  
Black Church ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Black Life

There was a time when one wanted to learn about Black religion you went to church, the Black Church to be more specific. The “all-in-one agency” which W.E. B. DuBois described the Black Church as certainly operated as a centralized and essential aspect of Black life. Its networks have come to signify Black believers’ emancipatory visions since its beginning during slavery in America. Today Black users’ contemporary engagement with digital technology has both broadened and complicated the scholarly understanding of the Black Church and Black religion to include more than its Christian manifestation. A number of works provide important theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of black digital use, digital structures of inequality, and counter-discourse production. On the topic of digital religion, works have emphasized the importance of digital technology in mediating religious experience. Yet, despite findings that people of African descent are often early adopters of technology, at the intersections of blackness, religion, and digital technology scholarly work remains sparse. This paper provides both a survey and framework for the study of digital Black religion. The work of Black religious media scholars is paired with that of Heidi Campbell and others writing on digital religion to offer a needed approach to the articulation and study of digital Black religion as a tradition rooted in notions of freedom.

Obama, Black Religion, and the Reverend Wright Controversy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Black Church ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the controversy surrounding Obama's former, prophetic pastor Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. as it relates to Black identity. The controversy surrounding the comments of Rev. Wright can be traced to black religion's unsolicited interjection into the American public discourse on diversity during an unprecedented presidential campaign, when white America had begun to feel a measure of self-satisfaction about its capacity to transcend historic white supremacy and elect a black man to the high office of the U.S. presidency for the first time in American history. Public questions were raised about Obama's church and faith as well as the patriotism of Rev. Wright and the racial inclusiveness of black religion. Perhaps the controversy would have been less pronounced had black religion's public, “civil,” face been foregrounded. But it came by way of the culturally specific space of the Black Church, not just a context for movement organizing and racial unity, but the setting for challenging moral hypocrisy in an oppressive society.

Black Power and Black Theology in Cairo, Illinois

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry L. Pimblott
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Black Freedom Struggle ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Moral Suasion ◽  
Over Time

This chapter argues that the thesis of Black Power's de-Christianization must be tested on the ground, with scholars paying attention to local struggles as they evolved over time, and in response to changing social and economic conditions. It follows the religious contours of Cairo's black freedom struggle from the 1950s to the 1970s to illustrate that while Black Power's reliance upon the black church was consistent with earlier campaigns, the United Front's theology nevertheless reflected a significant departure from the established Civil Rights credo. Whereas civil rights leaders expressed a firm belief in the redemptive power of Christian nonviolence and moral suasion to topple the walls of segregation, Cairo's Black Power advocates were less optimistic.

The Movement for Black Lives vs. the Black Church

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence T. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Black Freedom Movement ◽  
Black Clergy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Freedom Movement

Several times over the past three years, the Black Church and the Movement for Black Lives have clashed, revealing a peculiar incongruence. Movement for Black Lives activists, advocates, and agitators are not only pushing to hold police officers and officials in the criminal justice system accountable for deaths of Black victims; they have been pushing the Black Church and Black clergy as well. Why have activists, advocates, and aggrieved agitators in the Movement for Black Lives protested against prominent figures in the Black Church so vociferously and boldly? Hasn’t the Black Church been a stalwart presence in the Black Freedom Movement historically? Should such disruptive behavior be condoned? Is it behavior that Jesus himself would condone?

scholarly journals Guest Editor's Introduction: Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Alves
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Methodological Approaches

As an introduction to a series of articles focused on the exploration of particular tools and/or methods to bring together digital technology and historical research, the aim of this paper is mainly to highlight and discuss in what measure those methodological approaches can contribute to improve analytical and interpretative capabilities available to historians. In a moment when the digital world present us with an ever-increasing variety of tools to perform extraction, analysis and visualization of large amounts of text, we thought it would be relevant to bring the digital closer to the vast historical academic community. More than repeating an idea of digital revolution introduced in the historical research, something recurring in the literature since the 1980s, the aim was to show the validity and usefulness of using digital tools and methods, as another set of highly relevant tools that the historians should consider. For this several case studies were used, combining the exploration of specific themes of historical knowledge and the development or discussion of digital methodologies, in order to highlight some changes and challenges that, in our opinion, are already affecting the historians’ work, such as a greater focus given to interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and a need for the form of communication of historical knowledge to become more interactive.

The Politics of Interdependent Independence in Black Religion: The Case of the Reverend George Freeman Bragg Jr., a Black Episcopal Priest

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-454
Author(s):  
Nicole Myers Turner
Keyword(s):  
Black Church ◽  
Black People ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Black Leadership ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Theological School ◽  
Reconstruction Period

AbstractIn the Reconstruction period, Black religion and politics intersected and fostered ideas about black interdependent independence in predominantly white churches. We see this form of black religious politics exemplified in the experiences and ideas of the Reverend George Freeman Bragg Jr., a Black Episcopal priest who was educated at the Branch Theological School (BTS) in Petersburg, Virginia. It was upon the foundation of Bragg's experiences at the BTS, established as a racially segregated alternative to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary (in Alexandria, Virginia), and in the Readjuster Movement (a biracial political coalition that controlled Virginia's legislature from 1879–1885), that he wrote histories of Black people in the Episcopal Church, histories that extolled black leadership, the need for (white) economic support for but also autonomous action of black churches and black leaders, and the efficacy of the Episcopal Church as a political training ground for black church members. Bragg's case both demonstrates how broadening the definitions of black religion reconfigures studies of religion, reconstruction, and Blackness, and expands our notions of Black political critique as deriving from more than the familiar binaries of protest and accommodation.

Roman Studies and Digital Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 171-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger S. Bagnall ◽  
Sebastian Heath
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Original Language ◽  
State Of Affairs

There is hardly any aspect of scholarly work and teaching in Roman Studies today not marked by digital technology. We assume that readers regularly access digital images of Roman material culture, use digitised corpora of primary sources in the original language or translation or consult online books and articles. The availability of digital resources on the internet is also a welcome enabler of ongoing public interest and even participation in the field. This overall state of affairs is generally a positive development, but both general trends and specific digital resources deserve a critical appraisal.

scholarly journals Industry 4.0: Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industry of the Republic of Belarus

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
I. A. Zubritskaya
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Ideal

The article systematizes theoretical and methodological approaches to the economy and the organization of new industrial technologies, including Industry 4.0, the trends of influence of technical and technological megatrends on the economic development of society. Based on the theoretical and methodological framework refined interpretation of the concept "digital technology" and "digital transformation of manufacturing industry" and also developed the ideal model digital industrial enterprises included in the organizational-economic mechanism of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry of the Republic of Belarus.

scholarly journals “We Are Doing Everything That Our Resources Will Allow”: The Black Church and Foundation Philanthropy, 1959–1979

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Philip Byers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Black Christians ◽  
Virginia Union University ◽  
Foundation Philanthropy

Contemporary wealth inequality has prompted a renewed and increased interest in the role that external funding plays in civil society. While observers frequently consider how big philanthropy influences education, politics, and social services, few historical treatments of the postwar era have addressed the interaction between foundation philanthropy and American religion. Black Christianity stands as one clear example of this oversight. Numerous studies of black life in the twentieth-century have engaged the tensions between internal prerogatives and external influences without applying those questions to black churches. This article begins that exploration by focusing on Lilly Endowment, Inc.—the most consistent twentieth-century source of foundation support for religion—and analyzing its interactions with a series of summer seminars for black ministers hosted at Virginia Union University. Though contextual changes in the latter twentieth century altered the nature of Lilly Endowment’s relationship with its recipients, two decades of collaboration reveal how black Christians exerted substantial influence over the trajectory of Lilly Endowment’s growing program in religious giving.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pimblott
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Freedom Struggles

This introduction provides an outline of the book by discussing topics such as Black power and the Black church. Black freedom struggles in the borderland and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois. A large emphasis is placed on the exploration of the changing relationship of the Black church and African American Christianity to Cairo Black freedom struggles. The story of Karen Rice, a Black Power activist, is also provided in order to show how stories of this kind during the Black Power Movement raised important questions about Black Power’s de-Christianization and bolstered recent calls from scholars in the emergent subfield of “Black Power Studies” to probe more deeply the relationship between the Black church, African American Christianity, and the Black Power Movement.

The ‘Smart Region’ Concept: The Implementation of Digital Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1338
Author(s):  
Julia V. LYSHCHIKOVA ◽  
Elena A. STRYABKOVA ◽  
Anastasia S. GLOTOVA ◽  
Tatiana N. DOBRODOMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Evolutionary Idea

The article is devoted to the identification and systematization of theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation of the concept ‘smart region’ in Russia and abroad. The objects of the research are the processes of the sustainable spatial development of a region as a geographically-localized ecosystem of the digital economy. The subject of the research is the organizational, economic and managerial relations that arise in the process of formation and institutionalization of the concept ‘smart region’ in the management of sustainable spatial development. The authors have found that the concept ‘smart region’ is an evolutionary idea. Its main content is the creation and development of the region as competitive in the national and global aspects economic system and safe and comfortable for a person socio-territorial community, determined by a set of economic, social and environmental factors based on the implementation of modern information and communications and other technologies.

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