Anthony G Reddie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1134813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony G Reddie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony G |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddie |
| SIGNATURE | REDDIE A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Queen's Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3490-2881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Living Black Theology
Living Black Theology is a constructive theological appraisal for a radical mode of socio-political engagement that both acknowledges and speaks to the current cultural and intellectual contestations with which many societies are wrestling. This book offers a liberationist and postcolonial articulation of Black theology that addresses the historic legacy of slavery and colonialism. It creates a dynamic, interdisciplinary critique of the underlyin…
Towards a Critical White Theology
Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, from the UK, the USA and New Zealand, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future, especially for White-racialised theologians committed to dismantling whiteness. With sections addressi…
Beyond a theology of good intentions
In a contribution developed from an address with British Methodists – the church to which the author belongs – this article probes problematic dynamics of patronage in a tradition that at its best has affirmed equity and social justice. Through exploration of Willie James Jennings’ emphasis on the ubiquity of Whiteness, and revisiting the author’s own earlier critique of ‘a theology of good intentions,’ as well as through case studies in theologi…
From Black Theology to Black Lives Matter and Back Again
This article is written by a descendant of enslaved Africans and explores the theological significance of Black bodies. Black bodies have been commodified, controlled and coerced by White hegemony, often lacking agency and self-determination. Using personal experience and contextual analysis, this article, drawing on Black theology inspired reflections, argues that we need to rethink how we conceive of Black bodies ethically, if Black lives are t…
Deconstructing Methodist Mythology
This article offers a postcolonial and liberationist hermeneutic for reinterpreting and reassessing Wesleyan and Methodist history. It argues that much of Methodist and Wesleyan history has been shrouded in ‘Whiteness’; this term is concerned less with the epidermis of those racialized as ‘White’, and is more focused on systems, structures, policies, and procedures, all of which incorporate the totality of this phenomenon. As a cradle Methodist a…
Credibility of Churches’ Antiracism Engagement
This article aims to explore how the entanglement of Protestant Christianity and race and racism is manifested in contemporary Dutch society, and to identify which themes for introspection this yields for majority white Dutch Protestant churches. We argue that introspection on perceived superiority of white Dutch Protestantism is crucial to uncover subtle, unconscious mechanisms and ideas that are present in majority white Dutch Protestant church…
Transformative Education, Participative Black Theology and the Challenge of Making a Difference
This paper explores the critical intersection of transformative pedagogies, especially the work of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal, as it encounters Black theology. The nexus of these epistemological frameworks is then reflected on further, in order that a Black participative mode of theological reflection can be explicated as a newer, more critical form of intellectual enquiry. The development of this work, I argue, can then be used as a means of …
Dismantling Whiteness – A response
Critical Insights into After Whiteness
Untangling the Legacies of Slavery
This paper arises from a pilot project of the Council for World Mission (CWM) that is seeking to explore the Legacies of Slavery via the archives of the London Missionary Society, the forerunners of CWM. Arguments around the justification of European Christian Mission often focus on the efficacy and utilitarianism of missionary activity, in terms of education, medicine or the removal unethical indigenous religio-cultural practices. This paper see…
Crisis in Black Theology
This study explores the contemporary crisis in Black Theology and its present moribund complexion. The author, a well-known black theologian, argues that Black Theology as an academic discipline has struggled with an identity crisis emerging from its origins as a pragmatic response to the existential struggles evinced in the lives of black people and not as an intellectual movement in the first instance. As sociopolitical contexts have changed, a…
Racial Justice for the Windrush Generation in Great Britain
This article argues that the experience of the “Windrush generation,” Black Caribbean post–Second World War migrants to the UK, has been one of constant struggle for racial justice. Living in Britain has been undertaken against the backdrop of a Mission Christianity that has exuded a distinct anti‐Blackness in its relationship with Black bodies across four centuries. This particular dynamic of “Christian Britain” has created a framework that has …
Reassessing the Inculcation of an Anti-Racist Ethic for Christian Ministry
This paper outlines the means by which candidates training for Christian ministry are encouraged to engage with the deontological positionality of anti-racism as a substantive element of Christian praxis. The first part of the paper provides some brief historical reflections on what was then the conventional approach to teaching an anti-racist ethic for Christian ministry, namely, the practice of "racism awareness". Following these reflections, t…
Now you see me, now you don't
This paper explores the intersection of Black Liberation theology and Practical theology, wrestling with the complexity of human subjectivity and epistemology. Practical theology has often been at the forefront of exploring the relationship between lived experience and knowledge production, often in terms of gender and sexuality. Yet, like other forms of theological articulation, the impact of Whiteness has rarely been explored particularly in re…
Powers, principalities and the spirit
Esther Acolatse is Associate Professor of Pastoral theology and Intercultural studies at Knox College, The University of Toronto, Canada. In this, her second book, Acolatse continues in the ingenio
Spirit in the dark
Spirit in the Dark is a richly textured and intellectually sophisticated text that expands on the range and the nature of Black religio-cultural and theological discourse in the US. Sorett’s thesis
Doing It Our Way
This article offers some critical reflections on the process of contextualising the Christian faith in the Caribbean. The process of seeking to find synergy between Christianity and the culture and experiences of poor, disenfranchised people of the Caribbean is one that has been undertaken by committed postcolonial scholars and activists since the early 1970s. This faith-based work received significant sustenance from the socialist-inspired, anti…
African Derived Religions, Complex Subjectivity and Black Agency
This paper explores the intersections of African derived religions and evangelical, Protestant Christianity, which gives rise to the notion of multiple religious belonging. Utilizing the concept of “Complex Subjectivity”, from the work of Anthony Pinn, this paper seeks to articulate African Caribbean religiosity as a complex amalgam of diffuse perspectives and sources, emanating from Europe and Africa. Complex subjectivity, is the quest for a mor…
Transformative Pedagogy, Black Theology and Participative forms of Praxis
This paper outlines the development of a form of scholarship that seeks to bring together transformative modes of pedagogy that have become commonplace in Christian religious education alongside the liberative themes to be found in Black theology. The paper summarises the significant contributions of Paulo Freire to transformative pedagogy and conscientization as the first stage in this developing work. This formative analysis is then followed by…
Introductory Words
Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity
Contesting Post-Racialism
Telling the Truth and Shaming the Devil
This article outlines a creative, innovative and interdisciplinary approach to conscientizing ordinary Black people on the margins of British society. This approach is one I have termed “participative” Black theology. It seeks to move beyond largely theorizing to that which enables ordinary people to be active in a more praxis-based approach to building theological discourse from the bottom up. This particular, participative approach to Black the…
Working Against the Grain
Christianity has been both the cause of oppression among Black communities and a source of liberation. Black Christianity has sought solace in the redemptive figure of Christ in its struggle for human dignity and freedom. 'Working Against the Grain' addresses the displacement of Black theology in Diasporan African churches by charismatic and conservative neo-Pentecostalism. The essays present a radical Black theology that empowers disenfranchised…
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, an
Reassessing the Inculcation of an Anti-Racist Ethic for Christian Ministry
This paper outlines the means by which candidates training for Christian ministry are encouraged to engage with the deontological positionality of anti-racism as a substantive element of Christian praxis. The first part of the paper provides some brief historical reflections on what was then the conventional approach to teaching an anti-racist ethic for Christian ministry, namely, the practice of "racism awareness". Following these reflections, t…
Faith, Stories and the Experience of Black Elders
1. The Development of this new Approach. 2. Speaking with Black Elders - An Early Attempt. 3. Creating the Oral Tradition Document. 4. Piloting the Oral Tradition Document: Inter-Generational Work with Families. 5. The Impact of the Oral Tradition Conversations on Black Children. 6. Implications for the Work with Older People in Britain: Working with Black Elders. References. Index
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Dwight N. Hopkins, Being Human
(2006). Dwight N. Hopkins, Being Human: Race, Culture and Religion. Black Theology: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 238-240
Another Way of Doing Black God-Talk
A Black Theological Approach to Reconciliation
This paper critiques the classical/dominant model of reconciliation as conceived within Christian theology, arguing that this particular approach is one that enables the power imbalances and structural frameworks between White power and Black marginality to remain unchanged. The author, a Black theologian in Britain, argues that an alternative, radical model of reconciliation to be found within Black theology offers greater opportunities for effe…
Emmanuel Y. Lartey, Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World
Politics of Black Entry into Britain
This paper seeks to address issues pertaining to the positionality of Black people in Britain vis-à-vis our arrival, interrogation and, on occasions, detention at airports. The author, who is a Black British theologian, utilizes his own experiences as an initial point of a departure in order to analyse the reasons for the disproportionate levels of suspicion, negative invective and, ultimately, the detention of Black bodies as they seek to gain e…
Working Against the Grain
People Matter Too! The Politics and Method of Doing Black Liberation Theology (the Ferguson Lecture—the University of Manchester, 18th October, 2007)
This essay is adapted from a public lecture given by the author on the occasion of the 2007 Samuel Ferguson Lecture, at the University of Manchester, on 18th October, 2007. This essay outlines an approach to undertaking Black theology in Britain by means of a participative methodology than is drawn from the wider practice of practical theology (Christian education in particular). This approach to Black theology is one that seeks to work, predomin…
Alison Webster, You Are Mine
Alison Webster, You Are Mine
Not Just Seeing, But Really Seeing
One of the biggest challenges that confront Black people living in the UK is how to assess the veracity of the macro and micro contexts in which our lives are lived. In a country whose indices for what constitutes normality and acceptability are predicated on notions of "Whiteness," Black people have always needed to possess an armoury of experiential and psycho-social tools in order to discern how to live as a potent symbol of "otherness" within…
Carol B. Duncan, This Spot of Ground
(2009). Carol B. Duncan, This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto. Black Theology: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 371-373
Noel Leo Erskine, Black Theology and Pedagogy
Exploring the Workings of Black Theology in Britain
This essay outlines two contrasting methods for undertaking Black theology in Britain, namely the respective work of Robert Beckford and that of the author of this article. The article is offered as a contribution to the wider development of urban theology in Britain. The author, who is one of the leading Black theologians in Britain, offers this work as a means of unpacking some of the methodological and epistemological concerns of this developi…
Mokgethi Motlhabi, African Theology/Black Theology in South Africa
(2011). Mokgethi Motlhabi, African Theology/Black Theology in South Africa: Looking Back, Moving On. Black Theology: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 111-113
Christianity Tu'n Mi Fool
This article seeks to re-think confessional Black Christian faith, in the British context, through the use of such refining optics as Black liberation theology and religious, postcolonial discourse. I argue that Black Christian faith in Britain is a product of empire and colonialism and so has been infected by the "viral strain" of neo-colonialist religio-cultural epistemological frameworks. This, as a corollary, has limited and stifled the praxi…
Living Out Faith
This essay is concerned with the critical needs of ordinary Black Christians in Britain and how their faith engages with the materiality of their Blackness. The central argument of this essay is that “Black Christianity in Britain” needs to engage with the processes of critical reflection and learning in order to ensure that this phenomenon is better attuned to the environmental milieu in which this collective faith is located. This work calls fo…
Vincent L. Wimbush, White Men’s Magic
Working Against the Grain
Christianity has been both the cause of oppression among Black communities and a source of liberation. Black Christianity has sought solace in the redemptive figure of Christ in its struggle for human dignity and freedom. 'Working Against the Grain' addresses the displacement of Black theology in Diasporan African churches by charismatic and conservative neo-Pentecostalism. The essays present a radical Black theology that empowers disenfranchised…
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, an
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
Black Bodies and the Black Church
Contesting Post-Racialism
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