Black Theology--Essays on Gender Perspectives

Black Theology--Essays on Gender Perspectives
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1532608187
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What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too. Some say it is biological; others claim it has to do with socialization. Hopkins's career has focused on defining what a black American man is, and how he builds bridges of support and engagement with women. Hopkins's research as a theologian, and his experiences, substantiate that the importance of religious viewpoints, principled values, and future hope remain key to any successful creation of a new African American male and new healthy male-female interactions.

Black Theology—Essays on Gender Perspectives

Black Theology—Essays on Gender Perspectives
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1532608195
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What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too. Some say it is biological; others claim it has to do with socialization. Hopkins's career has focused on defining what a black American man is, and how he builds bridges of support and engagement with women. Hopkins's research as a theologian, and his experiences, substantiate that the importance of religious viewpoints, principled values, and future hope remain key to any successful creation of a new African American male and new healthy male-female interactions.

Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives

Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532608217
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Since its start in 1966, black liberation theology in the United States has continually engaged international developments with Africa and the entire world. But after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, there has been an almost twenty-year break in books on black theology and international affairs. Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives bridges that post-1990 gap and makes a vital contact with Africa again. This book conceptualizes black theology to take on the global reconfigurations and opportunities brought about by the rapidly shrinking earth of fast-paced, worldwide contacts. In other words, in the specificity of the genealogy of black theology, we need to reforge ties with Africa. This claim is based on tradition. And in the generality of the larger worldwide intertwining of technologies and economics, we need a new type of black theological leadership for the twenty-first century. This claim is based on today's international challenges. The essays in this book draw on tradition and point forward in the midst of today's worldwide challenges and favorable possibilities, given the closeness of all nations and the varieties of cultures.

Black Theology—Essays on Global Perspectives

Black Theology—Essays on Global Perspectives
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532608225
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Since its start in 1966, black liberation theology in the United States has continually engaged international developments with Africa and the entire world. But after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, there has been an almost twenty-year break in books on black theology and international affairs. Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives bridges that post-1990 gap and makes a vital contact with Africa again. This book conceptualizes black theology to take on the global reconfigurations and opportunities brought about by the rapidly shrinking earth of fast-paced, worldwide contacts. In other words, in the specificity of the genealogy of black theology, we need to reforge ties with Africa. This claim is based on tradition. And in the generality of the larger worldwide intertwining of technologies and economics, we need a new type of black theological leadership for the twenty-first century. This claim is based on today's international challenges. The essays in this book draw on tradition and point forward in the midst of today's worldwide challenges and favorable possibilities, given the closeness of all nations and the varieties of cultures.

Global Voices for Gender Justice

Global Voices for Gender Justice
Author: Ramathate T. H. Dolamo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1556356463
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Compiled in conjunction with the theological commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), Global Voices for Gender Justice is a detailed anthology of essays written by theologians from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and U.S. minority groups who share their theological analysis of gender issues. Topics include: voices of unchurched Korean women, black male heterosexuality, gendered forms of racism (a Native American woman's perspective), Latin American feminist theology and gender theories, culture/gender in Latin America, gender and new and renewed images of the divine, the shifting gender role of women, harmonizing masculine and feminine in the male gender, gender concern (a male perspective in holistic paradigm), the portrait of women in the parables, a critical review of a feminist interpretation of the Hebrew canon patriarchy, and gender mainstreaming in African theology (an African woman's perspective). Contributors: Jung-Ha Kim, Andrea Smith, Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, Diego Irarrazaval, Ana Maria Tepedino, Judith Na Bik Gwat, Oswald B. Firth, J. B. Banawiratma, Kemdirim O. Protus, Ramathate T. H. Dolamo. Philomena N. Mwaura, and Dwight N. Hopkins.

Wrestling with God in Context

Wrestling with God in Context
Author: M. P. Joseph
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506445810
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Shoki Coe was among the first to speak of "contextualization" in theology. Coe argued that theology is not a reiteration of past formulas or doctrines but a response to the self-disclosing initiative of the living God in history and human experience. Yet he remains little known outside his native Taiwan. Wresting with God in Context introduces Coe's work and social vision and evaluates his contributions to the field of missiology and ecclesiology. Eager to offer a creative and critical witness to Christian faith, Coe worked tirelessly to liberate theology from its Western captivity and shaped a generation of theological reflection on God, culture, and history. For thousands of students and church members around the world, Shoki Coe was the spiritual father that guided their contextual theological pursuit to the living reality of God. In order to reflect on his legacy, the chapters in this volume--including original essays from Stephen Bevans, Dwight Hopkins, and Enrique Dussel--tackle the critical, methodological issues related to doing theology, reading the Scriptures, and being the church.

The Rise and Demise of Black Theology

The Rise and Demise of Black Theology
Author: Alistair Kee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351145509
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Black Theology emerged in the 1960s as a response to black consciousness. In South Africa it is a critique of power; in the UK it is a political theology of black culture. The dominant form of Black Theology has been in the USA, originally influenced by Black Power and the critique of white racism. Since then it claims to have broadened its perspective to include oppression on the grounds of race, gender and class. In this book the author contests this claim, especially by Womanist (black women) Theology. Black and Womanist Theologies present inadequate analyses of race and gender and no account at all of class (economic) oppression. With a few notable exceptions Black Theology in the USA repeats the mantras of the 1970s, the discourse of modernity. Content with American capitalism it fails to address the source of the impoverishment of black Americans at home. Content with a romantic imaginaire of Africa, this 'African-American' movement fails to defend contemporary Africa against predatory American global ambitions.

Black Faith and Public Talk

Black Faith and Public Talk
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602580138
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When Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he signaled to the world that the American black faith tradition would no longer recognize the confines of the church walls as the extent of its purview in society. Cone liberated the Gospel of Christ from its institutionalized forms, unhinging it from oppressive and racist power structures in American society and releasing it to do its work in the public sphere. Black Faith and Public Talk continues Cone's theme of power in the public realm and examines the economic, political, cultural, gender, and theological implications of black faith and black theology.

Vulnerability and Resilience

Vulnerability and Resilience
Author: Jione Havea
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978703643
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In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation theologies, they tell their stories in the hope that they will expose cultures that make individuals and communities vulnerable, and that those stories will encourage vulnerable subjects to be resilient and bring change to theological institutions that conserve vulnerability. Because of the location of the contributors—the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean, and Oceania—this book is a testimony that vulnerability is present all over the world, and that resilience is a liberating alternative.