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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Contesting post-racialism. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 (DLC) 2014031673 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R Drew Smith; William Ackah; Anthony Reddie; Rothney S Tshaka |
ISBN: | 9781626745056 1626745056 9781626745094 1626745099 1628462000 9781628462005 |
OCLC Number: | 887188301 |
Notes: | Includes index. Some chapters based on papers presented at the 2011 Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) conference at University of South Africa, and at the 2012 TRRR conference at University of London, Birkbeck College. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | A restless presence : church activism and "post-apartheid," "post-racial" challenges / Allan Boesak -- Shape-shifting : cultural hauntings, contested post-racialism, and black theological imagination / Walter Earl Fluker -- High school students, the Catholic Church, and the struggle for black inclusion and citizenship in Rock Hill, South Carolina / Luci Vaden -- Christian youth activism and South African black ecclesiology / Reggie Nel -- White theology amidst white rhetoric on violence / Cobus van Wyngaard -- "They must have a different God than our God" : towards a lived theology of black churchwomen during the United States civil rights movement / AnneMarie Mingo -- Church youth activism and political and economic constraints in "post-racial" South Africa / Chabo Freddy Pilusa -- Black South African Christian response to afrophobia in contemporary South Africa / Rothney S. Tshaka -- Collisions between racism and the truth of the cross / Leah Gaskin Fitchue and Ebony Joy Fitchue -- Pursuing American racial justice and a politically and theologically informed black church praxis / Forrest E. Harris Sr -- In defense of "Christian activism" : the case of Allan Boesak / Boitumelo Senokoane -- Legitimacy : the praxis of consensing and consenting in the contested post-racial democratic discourse in South Africa / Vuyani Vellem -- In search of a transforming public theology : drinking from the wells of black theology / Nico Koopman -- Whither transcendence? Framing the contours of transatlantic black unity in contested post-racialized times / William Ackah -- Contextuality of black experience and contributions to a wider debate / Anthony G. Reddie. |
Responsibility: | edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, Rothney S. Tshaka. |
Abstract:
After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature.
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- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- South Africa -- Race relations.
- United States -- Race relations.
- Church and social problems -- South Africa.
- Church and social problems -- United States.
- Post-racialism.
- RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
- Church and social problems.
- Race relations.
- South Africa.
- United States.