The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology by
Challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population -non-theists.
Indigenous Black Theology: Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience by
An attempt to recover discarded elements of African-based religions, lost upon African American practitioners of Protestant Christianity. In particular, it addresses the complicity of Christianity in fostering anti-African sentiment, and the necessity of recovering, or “reconversion” to, a more positive valuation of African heritage. Building upon the thought of Albert Cleage Jr., Clark seeks to mine African theological and ritual resources for the construction of an empowering theology.
Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of "Telling the Story" by
An attempt to retrieve and interpret “ancestral,” and especially West African, religious resources for the construction of a postmodern black theology. Coleman seeks to develop a black theology of liberation that is free to draw upon both Christian and non-Christian sources, without being bound to, even radical, doctrinal orthodoxy.
Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (Online) by
Weaves historical and sociological analyses of the relationship between black cultural nationalism and reinterpretations of the meaning of Africa from within the African American community.
Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience by
Anderson's work is two-sided: on one hand, he seeks to deconstruct an older, monolithic idea of African American religion as the stereotypical "black church" experience with one relationship to the larger cultural scene.
Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology by
In an examination of the early liberation methodology of James Cone, J. Deotis Roberts, and Joseph Washington, among others, Jones questions whether their foundation for black Christian theism--the belief in an omnibenevolent God who has dominion over human history--can provide an adequate theological foundation to effectively dismantle the economic, social, and political framework of oppression.
Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology by
A critique of black theological treatments of black suffering, and more specifically notions of “theodicy” and “redemptive suffering.” Pinn positions nontheistic black humanism as a more adequate response to black suffering, given its stress upon human agency in the face of oppression.
Reclaiming Stolen Earth: an Africana Ecotheology by
Demonstrates how the crisis of global climate change, like so many social crises, is an outgrowth of the most consequential problem of the modern era: the problem of "whiteness." Clark argues that an African-centered, or Africana, approach to theology reveals the ways that Black theology has radical ecological implications.
Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation by
Works the biblical and literary metaphors of dust and spirit to address the embodiment of God, Spirit, Christ, creation, and humans and to fashion a powerful justice-oriented spirituality of creation.
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