Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity : 200 Years and No Apology.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I SLAVERY AND BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS -- 1 'But It's in the Text! Slavery, the Bible, and the African Diaspora' -- 2 Was Paul an Arch-advocate of Slavery or a Liberator? -- 3 Buying the Poor for Silver and the Needy for a Pair of Sandals (Amos 8:6): The Fit between Capitalism and Slavery as Seen through the Hermeneutic of the Eighth-century Prophet Amos -- 4 A Resistant Biblical Hermeneutic within the Caribbean -- 5 Unending the Bible: The Book of Revelation through the Optics of Anancy and Rastafari -- PART II SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND BLACK SUBJUGATION -- 6 'Children of a Lesser God': The American Board Mission's Ordination Policy in South Africa -- 7 Necessary Remembrance: Towards a White British Biblical Hermeneutic in the Aftermath of the Mass Enslavement of Africans -- 8 A Legacy of Slavery - Black with the Slaves or Mulatto with the Slavers? An English Jamaican Theological Reflection on the Trajectories of 'Mixed Race Categories' -- PART III SLAVERY AND CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE LENS OF BLACK THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION -- 9 Faith and the Gallows: The Cost of Liberation -- 10 Re-reading Slave Writing through the Lens of Black Theology -- 11 Whither Africa?: Reflections on Current Day Africa in Light of Slavery -- 12 Divining Sisters: Reflections on an Experience of Divination by a Priestess of the Ausar Auset Society -- 13 Politics of Black Entry into Britain: Reflections on being a Black British Person Returning to the UK -- Index.

Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity explores the legacy of slavery in Black theological terms. Challenging the dominant approaches to the history and legacy of slavery in the British Empire, the contributors show that although the 1807 act abolished the slave trade, it did not end racism, notions of White supremacy, or the demonization of Blackness, Black people and Africa. This interdisciplinary study draws on biblical studies, history, missiology and Black theological reflection, exploring the strengths and limitations of faith as the framework for abolitionist rhetoric and action.

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