Black Theology
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A Brief History of Black Theology
I want to make a critical reassessment of the journals Black Theology in Britain: A Journal of Contextual Praxis[1] and its successor Black Theology: An International Journal.[2] At the time of writing, Black Theology: An International Journal remains the only academic publication dedicated to the articulation of Black theology in the world. With the demise of the Journal for Black Theology in Southern Africa, Black Theology: An International Journal (hereafter detailed as BTIJ) has assumed added importance for the furtherance of the critical conversation regarding the development of Black theology across the many contours of continental Africa and the African Diaspora. Black Theology in Britain Journal: Making Black Theology Visible…
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Constructing a Hindu Black Theology
In the context of Christianity, black theologians have offered understandings of scripture that promote black upliftment. One may then ask the question: can a Hindu to do the same? I argue that the answer to this question is “yes.” In this article, I examine the Bhagavad Gītā and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, two central Hindu sacred texts, in order to construct a Hindu black theology. I first turn my attention to the notion of the spiritual equality of all living beings. Hindu thought recognizes that individuals have a physical and a spiritual aspect of their being. The spiritual aspect is the ātman, or the immaterial spiritual self, who remains distinct from…
