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Looking Back at the Evolution of James Cone’s Theological Anthropology: A Brief Commentary

Religions, 2019
Reverend Dr. James Hal Cone has unquestionably been a key architect in defining Black liberation theology. Trained in the Western theological tradition at Garrett Theological Seminary, Cone became an expert on the theology of Twentieth-century Swiss ...
Sekhmet Ra Em Kht Maat
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Prophetic Theology in Black Theology, with special reference to the Kairos document

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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In memoriam: Vuyani Shadrack Vellem† (25 December 1968 – 4 December 2019)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Warm heart; sharp mind; frail body - black prophet treading where others do not dare…. For almost a decade, Prof. Vuyani Vellem sub-edited a special collection on black liberation theology.
Andries G. van Aarde, Stephan J. De Beer
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A matter of consciousness – Introducing Zora Neale Hurston and Katie G. Cannon

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article involves a close reading of two African American authors, Zora Neale Hurston, an acclaimed novelist and Katie Cannon, an influential theological ethicist.
Hans S.A. Engdahl
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Black Theology of Liberation: Faith and socio-economic justice in South Africa’s struggles

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The connection between faith and socio-economic justice in post-apartheid South Africa remains a critical area of discourse, requiring focused theological analysis.
Solomon S. Mahlangu
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The aim of this article is to point out that Black Consciousness and Black Theology are conceptually and philosophically comrades in arms, fighting side-by-side for the liberation of the oppressed masses, especially the black people emerging from ...
Kelebogile T. Resane
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