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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
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Does God Have a Body? Rāmānuja’s Challenge to the Christian Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Christian tradition’s core theological assertion is the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Yet, even while asserting God’s incarnation in space and time, the tradition has usually denied embodiment unto the Godhead itself.
Sydnor, Jon Paul
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Book Review: Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth and Vedanta Desika, John N. Sheveland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A review of John N. Sheveland\u27s Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth and Vedanta Desika by Reid B ...
Locklin, Reid B.
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: Hsieh Liang-tso and the Analects of Confucius: Humane Learning as a Religious Quest

open access: yes, 2006
Hsieh Liang-tso is the first volume to explore Chinese traditions in the Academy Series sponsored by Oxford and the American Academy of Religion. Most previous titles in the series focus on Christianity, which perhaps explains Selover’s attention to the ...
Selover, Thomas   +1 more
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Reflections on God and Evil in the Krishna Bhakti Theology of Caitanya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The story that forms the short prologue at the start of Valmiki’s Rāmāyana expresses something of how the bhakta deals with tragic loss and senseless violence.
Schweig, Graham M.
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Comparative Theology and Hermeneutics: A Gadamerian Approach to Interreligious Interpretation

open access: yesReligions, 2016
This paper employs the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer as a tool to underpin the methodology of Comparative Theology. Acknowledging limitations in Gadamer’s framework, it argues these can either be overcome or bypassed in this context.
Paul Hedges
doaj   +1 more source

Briefly Noted: \u3cem\u3eGod’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Book Review of God’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India. By Bradley Malkovsky.
Chirico, Kerry San
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