Black Theology Papers 2018

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018)

Black Theology Papers Vol. 4

In 2018, the AAR Black Theology Unit put out a Call for Papers to honor the legacy of black and womanist theology forerunners and to advance emerging scholarship.

  • Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness (Orbis, 1993): Celebrating 25 Years 
  • Black Theology, American Civil Religion, and Public Theology
  • Racial Liminality and Cruciform Bodies in Cone and King
  • Panel: Still Getting By: Margin and Boundary in Black Theology and Hip Hop Culture
  • James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Orbis, 2011): A Roundtable Celebrating the Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Published: Nov 23, 2019

Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness (Orbis, 1993): Celebrating 25 Years

A Womanist’s Poetic, Theo-Ethical Response to Sexual Trauma: Ethics, Theology & Black Women’s Poetry
Feb 28, 2024

Kimi Bryson
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The One Who Sees Me: Finding Hagar through Literary Hermeneutics and Religious Interpretive Agency
Feb 28, 2024

Oluwatomisin Oredein
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Outcasts in the Deserts of Hopelessness
Nov 18, 2019

Emilie M. Townes
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Powers & Principalities: A Black Womanist Interrogation of Demonarchy 25 Years Hence
Nov 22, 2019

Eboni Marshall Turman
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Black Theology, American Civil Religion, and Public Theology

Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration
Nov 18, 2019

Bryson White
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A Gift from Death: Necropolitics and Handing Over in James Cameron’s “A Time of Terror”
Nov 18, 2019

Jermaine Ross-Allam
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“Diagnosing an “Unholy Alliance”: The Radical Black Evangelical Critique of White Evangelical Nationalism”
Nov 18, 2019

Isaac Sharp
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Racial Liminality and Cruciform Bodies in Cone and King

The Christology of the Lynching Tree: Barth’s Crimson Thread, Mamie Till Bradley and the Indictment of White Supremacy
Nov 18, 2019

Jeannine Hill Fletcher
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