Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology

Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology
Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780933121621

In Black Seminarians, Dr. Ben outlines sources of Black theology before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, showing how their ideas, practices, and concepts were already old in Africa before Europe was born.

Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology

Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology
Author: Yosef A.A. Ben- Jochannan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1978
Genre:
ISBN:

With colonization come the dismantling of traditional African belief systems. Influenced by the Eurpopean propaganda mills, some Africans began to believe that they had produced nothing of worth. This is the origin of Black seminarians who could not find a Black Theology. In Black Seminarians, ben-Jochannan outlines sources of Black theology before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It's important for us to know that the ideas, practices, and concepts that went into the making of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were already old in Africa before Europe was born. Black Seminarians marks an important first step in our journey to reclaim their spiritual heritage.

Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology

Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology
Author: James T. Murphy, Jr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1477156186

An initial introduction to the study of Christian theology is both exciting and invigorating for students of its discipline. One can become enameled in the classic perspectives of theology without any consideration of a possible alternative. Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology is an exit from the classic conviction that trumpets the doctrine of soteriology attributing its substance to the posture of eternity while ignoring the importance of salvation in the existential. Careful not to reject the question of eternal life, but examining the nuances of the term "salvation" empowers this work to present the like manner essential that having salvation is just as much about "now" than it is in the here after.

Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the Diagram of the Law of Opposites

Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the Diagram of the Law of Opposites
Author: Yosef ben- Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781574780352

Published while teaching at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, this work showcases Dr. Ben as a mentor, and gives readers a sample of his interactive teaching style. He combines in this book a dynamic lecture on the Diagram of the Law of Opposites, along with essays contributed by his graduate students on aspects of the same topic. This collaboration between student and teacher distinguishes this volume from the many other books by this noted activist-historian

The Institution of the Seminary and the Training of Catholic Priests in South-Eastern Nigeria (1885-1970)

The Institution of the Seminary and the Training of Catholic Priests in South-Eastern Nigeria (1885-1970)
Author: Angelo Chidi Unegbu
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643910436

Today, we can no longer hide under the pretence that the grace of God alone suffices to make one a good priest. A close study of the history of priestly formation has shown that not just the training of priests can ensure an authentic priest-product, rather a continuous effort to adapt the training to the current world situation so that priests would be in the position to discharge their duties effectively. Such readiness to adaptability should, of course, not lose sight of the meaning and function of the priest as revealed in the person of Jesus: a service to the world. In the bid to assess the models for the training of priests in South-eastern Nigeria, the author using a historical-critical method traced the history of the models and events that shaped the current modules for the training of priests in South-eastern Nigeria. At the end of the historical research, he proffered some suggestions for improvement, amendment and solidification of the training of priests in the area. As one of the younger African churches, the examination of the training of priests in South-eastern Nigeria will also serve as a paradigm or typology for understanding the dynamics and the process of training of priests in other African countries, since most of these local churches share relatively similar historical, cultural, economic and socio-political circumstances.

The Black Man's North and East Africa

The Black Man's North and East Africa
Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781574780321

Few of Dr. Ben's books are written with co-authors. The Black Man's North and East Africa is an exception. Written with one of his early colleagues, George E. Simmonds, this work attacks the racist manipulation of African and Black history by 'educators' and 'authorities on Africa'. Defenders of the Africans' right to tell their own story, the authors insist that Black people must take responsibility for their own history, "Until African (Black) people are willing, and do write their own experience, past, and present, we will continue being slaves, mentally, physically, and spiritually, to Caucasian and Semitic racism and religious bigotry."

Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum

Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum
Author: Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781574780222

As Black and African Studies programs emerged in the early 1970's, the question of who has the right and responsibility to determine course content and curriculum also emerged. In 1972, Dr. Ben's critique on this subject was published as Cultural Genocide in The Black and African Studies Curriculum. It has been republished several times since then and its topic has remained timely and unresolved.

Living the Intersection

Living the Intersection
Author: Cheryl Jeanne Sanders
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800628529

Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. Yet are the two compatible? Social ethicist Cheryl Sanders marshals some leading womanist thinkers to take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and to explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives.

The Family Flamboyant

The Family Flamboyant
Author: Marla Brettschneider
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791481069

Bronze Medalist, 2007 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Gay/Lesbian Category The Family Flamboyant is a graceful and lucid account of the many routes to family formation. Weaving together personal experience and political analysis in an examination of how race, gender, sexuality, class, and other hierarchies function in family politics, Marla Brettschneider draws on her own experience in a Jewish, multiracial, adoptive, queer family in order to theorize about the layered realities that characterize families in the United States today. Brettschneider uses critical race politics, feminist insight, class-based analysis, and queer theory to offer a distinct and distinctly Jewish contribution to both the family debates and the larger project of justice politics.

Handbook of Racism, Xenophobia, and Populism

Handbook of Racism, Xenophobia, and Populism
Author: Adebowale Akande
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 971
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031135598

This handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes. By doing so, it homes in on certain historical incidents and episodes and presents a cogent analysis of anti-black, Jim Crowism, anti-people of color (Black, Latino, Native Americans), and prejudice that exists in the United States and around the world as a central tenet of racism. The book exposes the reader to the nature and practice of stereotyping, negative bias, social categorization, modern forms of racism, immigration law empowerment, racialized incarceration, and police brutality in the American heartland. It states that several centuries of white Americans’ negative socializing culture marked by widespread negative attitudes toward African Americans, are not eradicated and are still rife. Further, the book provides a panoramic view of trends of racial discrimination and other negative and desperate challenges that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color face across the world. Finally, the volume examines xenophobia, racism, prejudice, and stereotyping in different contexts, including topics such as Covid-19, religion and racism, information manipulation, and populism. The book, therefore, is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science, psychology, history, sociology, communications/media studies, diplomatic studies, and law in general, as well as ethnic and racial studies, American politics, global affairs, populism, and discrimination in particular.