Speculations on Black life: the collected writings of William R. Jones / edited by Darrell Jones, Monifa Love, and Anthony B. Pinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, William R. (William Ronald), author.

Contributor:

Jones, Darrell (Dancer), editor.

Love, Monifa A., editor.

Pinn, Anthony B., editor.

Paris, Peter J., 1933- writer of foreword.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in black religion and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, William R. (William Ronald).

Jones, William R.

Black theology.

United States--Religion.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xviii, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Summary:

"Is God a white racist? Posed by William R. Jones in his ground-breaking book of the same name, this question disrupted the theological assumptions that marked Black religious thought from early writings of the 1800s to the formation of Black theology in the 1960s. This book compiles his key and essential writings related to over three decades of critical reflection on race, religion, secularism, and oppression in the United States. Over the course of 30 years, Jones pushed questions and considerations that refined Black theology and that gave greater shape to and understanding of Black philosophers' intervention into issues of racial and structural inequality. His philosophical work, related to the grid of oppression, fosters an approach to the nature and meaning of oppression in the United States, encouraging rational interrogation of structures of injustice and thought patterns supporting those structures. Still relevant today, the straightforward style of communication used by Jones makes these essays easily accessible to a popular audience, while maintaining intellectual rigor making the book also suitable for an academy-based audience." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Peter J. Paris

Introduction. Seeing through the difficult : William R. Jones and his speculations on black life / Monifa Love

Part I: (Black) humanism. Chapter 1: Black power and unitarianism: a personal view / William R. Jones

Chapter 2: Theism and religious humanism : the chasm narrows / William R. Jones

Chapter 3: The case for black humanism / William R. Jones

Chapter 4: Religious humanism : its problems and prospects in black religion and culture / William R. Jones

Chapter 5: Oppression, race, and humanism / William R. Jones

Chapter 6: Is faith in God necessary for a just society? : insights from liberation theology / William R. Jones

Part II: Philosophical theology. Chapter 7: Reconciliation and liberation in black theology : some implications for religious education / William R. Jones

Chapter 8: Theodicy : the controlling category for black theology / William R. Jones

Chapter 9: The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones

Chapter 10: Purpose and method in liberation theology : implications for an interim assessment / William R. Jones

Chapter 11: Moral decision-making in the post-modern world : implications for Unitarian-Universalist religious education / William R. Jones

Part III: The politics of race. Chapter 12: Power and anti-power / William R. Jones

Chapter 13: Religion as legitimator and liberator : insights from the underclass for public policy / William R. Jones

Chapter 14: Hypocrisy, bibliocracy, and democracy : implications for gays and lesbians in the military / William R. Jones

Chapter 15: The disguises of discrimination : civil rights, 1954-65 / William R. Jones

Chapter 16: Toward a new paradigm for uncovering neo-racism in American institutions / William R. Jones

Part IV: Critical reflection on Jones's writings. Essay 1: The debate that shaped a field : William R. Jones and developments in black theology / Anthony B. Pinn

Essay 2: Neo-racism and the shortcomings of religious liberalism / Jamil W. Drake

Essay 3: Expanding the altar : transgressing and transforming conventional boundaries in black liberation theology / Brittany L. O'Neal

Afterword / Darrell Jones.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350338746

1350338745

OCLC:

1336889210

Publisher Number:

99994173016