Brian Bantum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Bantum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Bantum |
| SIGNATURE | BANTUM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Theology Seattle Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA 98119, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World
A Future Unwritten: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith
Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related but distinct articulations of how to understand this relationship from within the black diaspora and in particular the legacies of "mixed-race" children of the diaspora. This essay argues that each literary exploration of race and place demonstrates the inherent complications of two strategies of negotiating racial and re…
Black Theology or Black Religion? Discipleship as a Theological Method
Since its inception black theology has wrestled with questions of method as well as the struggle of African-American Christian existence in the wake of modernity. This article examines the relationship between black theology and black religious scholarship. Arguing against the centrality of Charles Long as one who recapitulates a colonial dominance through the refusal of African-American Christian particularity, I examine the work of Victor Ander…
Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity
The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either focused on "philosophical" claims about Jesus' identity or on "contextual" rebuttals--on a culturally transcendent, diesembodied Jesus of the creeds or on a Jesus of color who rescues and saves a particular people because of embodied particularity. But neither of these two attempts has accounted for the world as it is, a world of mixed race of hybridity, of cultural and racial inter…
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Black Theology or Black Religion? Discipleship as a Theological Method
Since its inception black theology has wrestled with questions of method as well as the struggle of African-American Christian existence in the wake of modernity. This article examines the relationship between black theology and black religious scholarship. Arguing against the centrality of Charles Long as one who recapitulates a colonial dominance through the refusal of African-American Christian particularity, I examine the work of Victor Ander…
Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity
The theological attempts to understand Christ's body have either focused on "philosophical" claims about Jesus' identity or on "contextual" rebuttals--on a culturally transcendent, diesembodied Jesus of the creeds or on a Jesus of color who rescues and saves a particular people because of embodied particularity. But neither of these two attempts has accounted for the world as it is, a world of mixed race of hybridity, of cultural and racial inter…
A Future Unwritten: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith
Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related but distinct articulations of how to understand this relationship from within the black diaspora and in particular the legacies of "mixed-race" children of the diaspora. This essay argues that each literary exploration of race and place demonstrates the inherent complications of two strategies of negotiating racial and re…
The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World
Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)