Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black TheologyFortress Press - 300 páginas Hopkins contends that the lives of enslaved African Americans were the foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today. Down, Up, and Over draws on their religious experience, and the example of their faith and witness, to develop a constructive theology of liberation. "African American belief structures and hope practices blossom from the black folk's religious encounters with God," Hopkins contends. The first half of his ambitious work reconstructs the cultural matrix of African American religion-a total way of life formed by Protestantism, American culture, and the institution of slavery (1619-1865)-in which racial identities developed. Whites from Europe and blacks from Africa arrived with specific, differing views of God, faith, practice, and humanity. Hopkins recreates their worldviews and how white theology sought to remake African Americans into naturally inferior beings divinely ordained into subservience. The counter voice of enslaved blacks begets the Spirit of Liberation. Tracking that Spirit, Hopkins crafts an explicit black theology of the Spirit of Liberation for us (God, chapter 4), with us (Jesus, chapter 5), and in us (human purpose, chapter 6). Out of the crucible of slavery emerges the lineaments of a constructive religious vision: the constitution of a new self and a divinely purposed "liberation toward full spiritual and material humanity." Hopkins sweeping vision, impressive scholarship, and astute social analysis make for a fascinating and important volume, one that can help all readers find meaning and purpose in the daunting 350-year pilgrimage of African Americans. |
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Conclusion | 37 |
NOTES | 42 |
From Sunup to Sundown Slavemasters Constitute the African American Self | 51 |
Black Labor for White Profit | 53 |
Networks of Discipline Control and Reclassification | 66 |
Knowledge of GodEpistemologyHow Does God Reveal? | 166 |
The Attributes of God | 171 |
Notes | 190 |
JesusThe Spirit of Total Liberation with Us | 193 |
The Goal of Liberation with Us | 194 |
The Road to the Goal | 200 |
Fruit of the Journey | 215 |
Notes | 235 |
Architecture of Slavery Churches | 83 |
Conclusion | 93 |
NOTES | 95 |
From Sundown to Sunup The African American CoConstitutes the Black Self | 107 |
A Background | 109 |
Seizing Sacred Domains | 116 |
A Divine Right to Resist | 128 |
Creating a Syncretized Religion | 135 |
Conclusion | 145 |
Constructive Black Theology The Spirit of Liberation | 155 |
GodThe Spirit of Total Liberation for Us | 157 |
The Acts of GodEthicsWhat Does God Do? | 158 |
The Being of GodOntologyWho Is God? | 162 |
Human Purpose The Spirit of Total Liberation in Us | 237 |
Created to Be Free | 239 |
Communalism | 251 |
MicroResistance and SelfCreation | 254 |
Racial Cultural Identity | 262 |
Language | 266 |
Spiritual Inspiration | 270 |
Conclusion | 274 |
Notes | 275 |
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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology Dwight N. Hopkins Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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