Overview
- Focuses on a very recognizable but misunderstood topic in Black theology
- Contributor list is made up of religious scholars and pastors whose expertise range from biblical interpretation, theology, and psychology of religion, to preaching, religious aesthetics, and religious education
- A timely discussion and reexamination of the legacy of the Abert B. Cleage Jr. and his unveiling of a mural of the Black Madonna and child
Part of the book series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice (BRWT)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Albert B. Cleage Jr.’s Theology and Politics
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Representations of the Black Madonna and Child, Christian Education, and Pastoral Care
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The Legacy of the Black Messiah in the African Diaspora
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About this book
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 United States. But fifty years later, what has been the lasting impact of this act of theological innovation? What is the legacy of Cleage’s emphasis on the literal blackness of Jesus? How has the idea of a Black Madonna and child informed notions of black womanhood, motherhood? LGBTQ communities? How has Cleage’s theology influenced Christian education, Africana pastoral theology, and the Black Arts Movement? The contributors to this work discuss answers to these and many more questions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child
Editors: Jawanza Eric Clark
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54689-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54688-3Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54689-0Published: 14 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Liberation Theology, Black Theology, Christian Theology