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Race : a theological account / J. Kameron Carter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xiv, 489 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195152794
  • 9780195152791
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.089 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: the argument at a glance -- Prelude on Christology and race: Irenaeus as anti-gnostic intellectual -- Part I. Dramatizing Race: A Theological Account of Modernity: -- 1. The drama of race: toward a theological account of modernity -- 2. The great drama of religion: modernity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race -- Part II. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies: -- 3. Historicizing race: Albert J. Raboteau, religious history, and the ambiguities of blackness -- 4. Theologizing race: James H. Cone, liberation and the theological meaning of blackness -- 5. Signifying race: Charles H. Long and the opacity of blackness -- Interlude on Christology and race: Gregory of Nyssa as abolitionist intellectual -- Part III. Redirecting Race: Outlines of a Theological Program: -- 6. The birth of Christ: a theological reading of Briton Hammon's 1760 Narrative -- 7. The death of Christ: a theological reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative -- 8. The spirit of Christ: a theological reading of the writings of Jarena Lee -- Postlude on Christology and race: Maximus the Confessor as anticolonialist intellectual -- Epilogue: the discourse of theology in the twenty-first century.