Race : a theological account / J. Kameron Carter.

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Main Author: Carter, J. Kameron, 1967-
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies.
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Language:English
Published: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the argument at a glance
  • Prelude on Christology and race: Irenaeus as anti-gnostic intellectual
  • Part I. Dramatizing Race: A Theological Account of Modernity:
  • 1. The drama of race: toward a theological account of modernity
  • 2. The great drama of religion: modernity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race
  • Part II. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies:
  • 3. Historicizing race: Albert J. Raboteau, religious history, and the ambiguities of blackness
  • 4. Theologizing race: James H. Cone, liberation and the theological meaning of blackness
  • 5. Signifying race: Charles H. Long and the opacity of blackness
  • Interlude on Christology and race: Gregory of Nyssa as abolitionist intellectual
  • Part III. Redirecting Race: Outlines of a Theological Program:
  • 6. The birth of Christ: a theological reading of Briton Hammon's 1760 Narrative
  • 7. The death of Christ: a theological reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
  • 8. The spirit of Christ: a theological reading of the writings of Jarena Lee
  • Postlude on Christology and race: Maximus the Confessor as anticolonialist intellectual
  • Epilogue: the discourse of theology in the twenty-first century.