The ties that bind : African American and Hispanic American/Latino/a theology in dialogue / edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamin Valentin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinn, Anthony B.

Valentin, Benjamin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black theology.

Hispanic American theology.

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2001.

Contents:

Part I Theology in "Black" and "Brown": History, Issues, and Interpretation

1. Black Theology in Historical Perspective: Articulating the Quest for Subjectivity / Anthony B. Pinn 23

2. Strangers No More: An Introduction to, and an Interpretation of, U.S. Hispanic/Latino/a Theology / Benjamin Valentin 38

Part II Theology and Its Reflexive Sources: Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Imagination

3. Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Imagination: A Redefinition / Justo L. Gonzalez 61

4. "We See Through a Glass Darkly": Black Narrative Theology and the Opacity of African American Religious Thought / Victor Anderson 78

Part III Theologizing with What's Popular: Theology and Popular Culture

5. Black Theology on God: The Divine in Black Popular Religion / Dwight N. Hopkins 99

6. Popular Religion, Political Identity, and Life-Story Testimony in an Hispanic Community / Harold J. Recinos 116

Part IV Women's Experience and Theology: Reflections on Womanist and Mujerista Theology

7. Preoccupations, Themes, and Proposals of Mujerista Theology / Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz 135

8. Womanist Theology: An Expression of Multi-dimensionality for Multi-dimensional Beings / Chandra Taylor Smith 149

Part V On Pain and Suffering: Theology and the Problem of Evil

9. Christian Doctrines of Humanity and the African Experience of Evil and Suffering: Toward a Black Theological Anthropology / Dianne Stewart 169

10. In Search of a Theology of Suffering Latinamente / Nancy Pineda-Madrid 187

Part VI Building Bridges: Reflections on Context, Identity, and Communities of Struggle

11. Building Bridges between Communities of Struggle: Similarities, Differences, Objectives, and Goals / Luis Pedraja 205

12. African American Christian Churches: The Faith Tradition of a Resistance Culture / Lee H. Butler, Jr. 223

Response / Luis Pedraja 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283).

ISBN:

0826413269

OCLC:

45466148