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Black Theology Papers 2015
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

In 2015, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

Author Meets Critic: Reggie Williams’ Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014)
Black Theology, The Arts, and Popular Culture
Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum, 1995): A Twenty Year Retrospective
Black Theology and Sacred Texts

Published: Nov 23, 2019

Beauty, Ugliness, and Black Theology
A Theological Aesthetics for Black Experience

Feb 29, 2024

Jeania Ree V. Moore

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Yeezus is Jesuz
Examining the Socio- Hermeneutical Transmediated Images of Jesus Employed by Kanye West

Dec 14, 2018

Daniel White Hodge

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Afro-Christian, Afro-Blue
Land-Based Autonomy and the Making of Blues Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century

Dec 14, 2018

Rufus Burnett

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Yorubá and Black Theologies, a Dialogue
Dec 14, 2018

Cláudio Carvalhaes

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Living Beyond Death
Engaging the Christo-logics of Cone’s God of the Oppressed after Williams’s Sisters in the Wilderness

Dec 14, 2018

Timothy McGee

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A Womanist Interpretation of the Lukan Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:15-24)
Using the Amended Parable Theory of Octavia E. Butler

Dec 14, 2018

Richetta Najuma Amen

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Dread Hermenuetics
Bob Marley, Paul Ricoeur, and the Productive Imagination

Dec 14, 2018

Christopher Ducanson-Hales

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Panel: Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum, 1995): A Twenty Year Retrospective
Feb 28, 2024

Barbara Holmes

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Engaging Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus with Bonhoeffer
Panel Discussion on Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance , by Reggie Williams

Feb 28, 2024

Clifford Green

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American Academy of Religion

Black Theology Unit

The AAR Black Theology Unit endeavors to advance the scholarship of black theology and to provide opportunities for transdisciplinary exchange with multiple perspectives in African diasporic religious thought and practice. Black Theology promotes innovative research that features black life and black religious experience as source and substance for theological method.

To learn more or to view our Winter 2020 Call for Papers for our annual conference, visit our web page.

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The Black Theology Papers Project

The Black Theology Papers Project aims to preserve and promote the intellectual heritage of black theology. The journal publishes one annual issue featuring papers presented by the Black Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion.

Managing Editor

Stanley Talbert

Assistant Professor of Religion, Pepperdine University

Founding Editors

Andrea C. White, Associate Professor of Theology & Culture, Union Theological Seminary

Adam Clark, Associate Professor of Theology, Xavier University

Josef Sorett, Associate Professor of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University

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Black Theology Papers 2015 Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

Black Theology, The Arts, and Popular Culture

Beauty, Ugliness, and Black Theology A Theological Aesthetics for Black Experience Feb 29, 2024

Yeezus is Jesuz Examining the Socio- Hermeneutical Transmediated Images of Jesus Employed by Kanye West Dec 14, 2018

Afro-Christian, Afro-Blue Land-Based Autonomy and the Making of Blues Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century Dec 14, 2018

Black Theology and Sacred Texts

Yorubá and Black Theologies, a Dialogue Dec 14, 2018

Living Beyond Death Engaging the Christo-logics of Cone’s God of the Oppressed after Williams’s Sisters in the Wilderness Dec 14, 2018

A Womanist Interpretation of the Lukan Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:15-24) Using the Amended Parable Theory of Octavia E. Butler Dec 14, 2018

Dread Hermenuetics Bob Marley, Paul Ricoeur, and the Productive Imagination Dec 14, 2018

Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum, 1995): A Twenty Year Retrospective

Panel: Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum, 1995): A Twenty Year Retrospective Feb 28, 2024

Author Meets Critic: Reggie Williams’ Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014)

Engaging Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus with Bonhoeffer Panel Discussion on Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance , by Reggie Williams Feb 28, 2024