Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why a White Christ Continues to Be Racist: The Legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr. -- The black Messiah-Albert Cleage's Christology -- Summary of Chapters -- Notes -- Part I: Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s Theology and Politics -- Chapter 2: The Theological Journey of Albert B. Cleage Jr.: Reflections from Jaramogi's Protégé and Successor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Nothing Is More Sacred Than the Liberation of Black People: Albert Cleage's Method as Unfulfilled Theological Paradigm Shift -- The Problem of Ontological Blackness -- A Pragmatic Theological Method -- Cleage's Doctrine of God-Cosmic Energy and Creative Intelligence -- Notes -- Chapter 4: "We Needed Both of Them": The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman's) Radical Interpretations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Scholarship and Black Protest Thought -- Introduction -- Martin and Malcolm in Cleage's Radical Homiletics -- Enduring Scholarship on Martin and Malcolm: Rev. Cleage's Politico-theological and Intellectual Legacy? -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Black Messiah and Black Suffering -- Introduction -- Theodicy -- Black Suffering -- Albert Cleage and the Pan African Orthodox Church of Christ -- Major Beliefs and Rituals -- Sin, Evil, and Suffering -- Critique and Analysis of Cleage's and PAOCC Theodicy -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Politics Is Sacred: The Activism  of Albert B. Cleage Jr. -- Traditional Political Impact -- Notes -- Part II: Representations of the Black Madonna and Child, Christian Education, and Pastoral Care -- Chapter 7: The Black Madonna and the Role of Women -- Maia -- Jendai -- Deborah -- Rehema -- Maxine -- Angela -- Michelle -- Binah -- Andretta.

Jaribu -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Black Power and Black Madonna: Charting the Aesthetic Influence of Rev. Albert Cleage, Glanton Dowdell &amp -- the Shrine of the Black Madonna, #1 -- A Collective Vision: The black Madonna Chancel Mural -- Making the black Madonna Visible: Critical Reception and the Circulation of the Image -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The Power of a Black Christology: Africana Pastoral Theology Reflects on Black Divinity -- Introduction -- The Black Consciousness Movement -- A Vignette -- Black Power and Black Theology -- What is Africana Pastoral Theology? -- Re-envisioning a Black God and Black Humanity -- Africana as Liberation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Image is Everything? The Significance of the Imago Dei in the Development of African American Youth -- Seeing the Image of God: Imago Dei and Black Bodies -- Imago Dei and black youth -- Reflecting on the Imago Dei with Youth -- How Can I Be Like God, When I'm Not Even Seen As Human? -- Youth Development in a Culture of Disposability -- When Images are not Enough -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11: A Crucified Black Messiah, a Dead Black Love -- Introduction -- Cleage's Theology and the Black Messiah -- Crucifying the Black Messiah -- Conclusion on Love and Blackness -- Notes -- Part III: The Legacy of the Black Messiah in the African Diaspora -- Chapter 12: The Crucified City: Detroit as a Black Christ Figure -- Christ Figure/The City as Text Methodology -- Black Detroit -- Race in Detroit -- The Ossian Sweet Trial -- Black Women, Black Detroit, and the Black Christ Figure -- 1967 Rebellion and Resurrection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13: Savior King: Re-reading the Gospels as Greco-Africana Literature &amp -- Re-imaging Christ as Messianic Pharaoh -- The New Testament as Greco-Africana Literature.

The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the New Testament: A Historiographical Review -- Athanasius and the Egyptian Revolution: Forging Christology, Creed, and Canon -- Rise of the New Pharaoh: The New Testament as Ancient Egyptian Prophetic Text -- Notes -- Chapter 14: He Is Black and We Are Queer: The Legacy of the Black Messiah for Black LGBTQ Christians -- Black Is Beautiful -- Can I Be Your Baby? -- My Body Belongs to God -- Notes -- Chapter 15: The "Black Messiah" and African Christologies: Pan-African Symbols of Liberation -- Wesley Theological Seminary -- I -- II -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 16: The Quest for a Radical Black Jesus: An Antidote to Imperial Mission Christianity -- What is Black Theology? -- The Imperial Legacy of Christianity in Britain -- A Radical Black Jesus Who Is with Us and for Us -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

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