White Theology
Subtitle: Outing Supremacy in Modernity (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403965844
Subjects: Religious aspects; United States; Race relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science; Religion - Church History; Textbooks; Sociology; Christianity - History - Social Issues; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Social Science / Minority Studies; Minority Studies - General; Christianity
First sentence: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America, black slaves absorbed, appropriated, and actually "stole," from their white masters a blondy-haired, blue-eyed Jesus of orthodox Christian doctrine who was "blackened" in their reconstruction of him not so much in feature as in figure, not so much in skin tone as in bodily bearing, not so much in content of preaching as in meaning.