The purpose of my project is to impact the knowledge, attitudes, and actions of leaders regarding Afrocentrism at Total Grace Church, Lexington Kentucky through the participation of an eight-part workshop on Afrocentricity. The design of the project included the administration o…
This dissertation utilizes a phenomenological approach to explore indigenous grammars of knowing constituting the spiritual epistemologies of the Yorùbá of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana. These grammars of knowing are treated as major theoretical resources that can greatly inform…
While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…
This dissertation examines the different theologies and movements that shape and influence the Black Church while comparing and contrasting them to black evangelicalism. By comparing and contrasting the theologies to black evangelicalism, the research allowed for the evaluation …
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth …
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth …
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth …
J. Kameron Carter argues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions, and he critiques the work of such noted scholars as Alber…
"In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well…
"In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well…
"In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of 'ontological blackness' in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well…