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- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- African American History and African American Theology
- Reading and Using Scripture in the African American Tradition
- African American Religious Experience
- The African American Christian Tradition
- Culture/Cultural Production and African American Theology
- Reason in African American Theology
- Theoretical Commitments in African American Theology
- Methodologies in African American Theology
- Doctrine of God in African American Theology
- Christology in African American Theology
- The Holy Spirit in African American Theology
- Humanity in African American Theology
- World/Creation in African American Theology
- Liberation in African American Theology
- Evil and Sin in African American Theology
- The Church in African American Theology
- Eschatology in African American Theology
- Heaven and Hell in African American Theology
- Womanist Theology as a Corrective to African American Theology
- Humanism in African American Theology
- Audiences of Accountability in African American Theology
- Embodiment in African American Theology
- Pedagogical Praxis in African American Theology
- Religious Pluralism and African American Theology
- Sexuality in African American Theology
- The Problem of History in African American Theology
- Social Theory and African American Theology
- Black Ontology and Theology
- African American Theology and the Global Economy
- African American Theology and the American Hemisphere
- The <i>African</i> in African American Theology
- Prosperity Gospel and African American Theology
- African American Theology and the Public Imaginary
- Cultural Boundaries and African American Theology
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
African American religious experience refers to conscious responsiveness to the holy or to divinity or to an existential sense of mystery and ultimacy. It emerges from complex religio-cultural terrain, and the study of its formation is problematized by several challenging and interrelated methodological, philosophical, and hermeneutical issues. These issues relate in part to academic studies of African Americans and their culture, the preeminence of the religious, the occurrence of religion and religious experience within the contingencies of history, and the slave trade. This essay frames the problematic study of the formation of African American religious experience by setting out some basic recurrent issues pertinent to the study of African American religious consciousness. It examines meanings of experience, religion, and religious experience; constructs a genealogy of the formation of African American religious consciousness and experience using a phenomenological method; reviews two major approaches to the study of African American religious experience in contemporary religious thought and theology, hermeneutical approach and womanist analysis; and raises some questions for contemporary lived expressions of African American religious experience.
Keywords: African Americans, religious experience, religion, slave trade, religious consciousness, religious thought, theology, hermeneutical approach, womanist analysis
M. Shawn Copeland is Professor of Theology at Boston College.
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- African American History and African American Theology
- Reading and Using Scripture in the African American Tradition
- African American Religious Experience
- The African American Christian Tradition
- Culture/Cultural Production and African American Theology
- Reason in African American Theology
- Theoretical Commitments in African American Theology
- Methodologies in African American Theology
- Doctrine of God in African American Theology
- Christology in African American Theology
- The Holy Spirit in African American Theology
- Humanity in African American Theology
- World/Creation in African American Theology
- Liberation in African American Theology
- Evil and Sin in African American Theology
- The Church in African American Theology
- Eschatology in African American Theology
- Heaven and Hell in African American Theology
- Womanist Theology as a Corrective to African American Theology
- Humanism in African American Theology
- Audiences of Accountability in African American Theology
- Embodiment in African American Theology
- Pedagogical Praxis in African American Theology
- Religious Pluralism and African American Theology
- Sexuality in African American Theology
- The Problem of History in African American Theology
- Social Theory and African American Theology
- Black Ontology and Theology
- African American Theology and the Global Economy
- African American Theology and the American Hemisphere
- The <i>African</i> in African American Theology
- Prosperity Gospel and African American Theology
- African American Theology and the Public Imaginary
- Cultural Boundaries and African American Theology
- Index
