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Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child
Jawanza Eric Clark (Ed.)
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Description for Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child
Hardback. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 colour illustrations, 3 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
In this collection, black religious scholars and pastors whose expertise range from theology, ethics, and the psychology of religion, to preaching, religious aesthetics, and religious education, discuss the legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the idea of the Black Madonna and child. Easter Sunday, 2017 will mark the fifty year anniversary of Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s unveiling of a mural of the Black Madonna and child in his church in Detroit, Michigan. This unveiling symbolized a radical theological departure and disruption. The mural helped symbolically launch Black Christian Nationalism and influenced the Black Power movement in the ... Read more
In this collection, black religious scholars and pastors whose expertise range from theology, ethics, and the psychology of religion, to preaching, religious aesthetics, and religious education, discuss the legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the idea of the Black Madonna and child. Easter Sunday, 2017 will mark the fifty year anniversary of Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s unveiling of a mural of the Black Madonna and child in his church in Detroit, Michigan. This unveiling symbolized a radical theological departure and disruption. The mural helped symbolically launch Black Christian Nationalism and influenced the Black Power movement in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137546883
SKU
V9781137546883
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About Jawanza Eric Clark (Ed.)
Jawanza Eric Clark is Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA. His first book, Indigenous Black Theology, is a work of comparative and constructive theology that incorporates the indigenous African notion of ancestor in the development of a new Black theology for the church.
Reviews for Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child
The publication of this collection of 15 essays coincides with the 50th anniversary of Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s unveiling of the mural of the black Madonna and Child ... . This collection of essays is vital for understanding not only Cleage's theology and activism but also the history of contemporary Black theology in the United States. The collection fills a ... Read more