Title Contesting post-racialism : conflicted churches in the United States and South Africa / edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents A restless presence : church activism and "post-apartheid," "post-racial" challenges / Allan Boesak -- Shape-shifting : cultural hauntings, contested post-racialism, and black theological imagination / Walter Earl Fluker -- High school students, the Catholic Church, and the struggle for black inclusion and citizenship in Rock Hill, South Carolina / Luci Vaden -- Christian youth activism and South African black ecclesiology / Reggie Nel -- White theology amidst white rhetoric on violence / Cobus van Wyngaard -- "They must have a different God than our God" : towards a lived theology of black churchwomen during the United States civil rights movement / AnneMarie Mingo -- Church youth activism and political and economic constraints in "post-racial" South Africa / Chabo Freddy Pilusa -- Black South African Christian response to afrophobia in contemporary South Africa / Rothney S. Tshaka -- Collisions between racism and the truth of the cross / Leah Gaskin Fitchue and Ebony Joy Fitchue -- Pursuing American racial justice and a politically and theologically informed black church praxis / Forrest E. Harris Sr -- In defense of "Christian activism" : the case of Allan Boesak / Boitumelo Senokoane -- Legitimacy : the praxis of consensing and consenting in the contested post-racial democratic discourse in South Africa / Vuyani Vellem -- In search of a transforming public theology : drinking from the wells of black theology / Nico Koopman -- Whither transcendence? Framing the contours of transatlantic black unity in contested post-racialized times / William Ackah -- Contextuality of black experience and contributions to a wider debate / Anthony G. Reddie Notes Some chapters based on papers presented at the 2011 Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) conference at University of South Africa, and at the 2012 TRRR conference at University of London, Birkbeck College Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Church and social problems -- South Africa Church and social problems -- United States Post-racialism. Church and social problems Post-racialism Race relations Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject South Africa United States Form Electronic book Author Smith, R. Drew, 1956- editor of compilation. Ackah, William, editor of compilation Reddie, Anthony, editor of compilation Tshaka, Rothney S. (Rothney Stok), editor of compilation. LC no. 2014032665 ISBN 9781626745056 1626745056

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