Celucien L Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 242030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celucien L Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celucien L |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian River State College, Fort Pierce, FL, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Attitude of Vodouyizan towards Christians in Haiti
In this essay, I analyse the language and message of two songs that are written within the framework of a postcolonial critique of imperial and neo-colonial Christianity. In both songs, the artists make counter claims toward Christianity and call the Haitin people to reject its colonized form and reclaim their ancestral faith of Vodou. The first lyric, “Guede/Gede,” is a rasin song (roots music) composed by the famous Haitian band Rasin Bwa Kayim…
Chelsea Stieber. Haiti’s Paper War
In Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, Chelsea Stieber offers an insightful critique of Haiti’s nineteenth-century demands for recognition on the international scene through two contested views and ideologies of governance. Haitian monarchy is associated with the ideas and political vision of Haiti’s first emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques 1er: 1804–1806). By contrast, Haitia…
James H. Cone and Black Theology
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Meaning of James H. Cone and the Significance of Black Theology
For many critics, James H. Cone, “The Father” of Black liberation theology, was America’s most important (Black) theologian in the twentieth-century who had energetically engaged the urgent issues of America’s race relations, justice, Black suffering, and civil rights. He wrote and spoke loudly against what he called "America’s Original Sin”, (White) racism, and thus pressed upon White Americans, especially White Christians in America, to stop pr…
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat
Towards a Caribbean Political Theology of Emancipation and Decolonization
This essay examines the contributions of four Caribbean theologians to the disciplines of theology and anthropology, and human rights conversations. Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti), Idris Hamid (Trinidad), Noel Leo Erskine (Jamaica), and D.H. Kortright Davis (Antigua and Barbuda) articulate a common vision of a Caribbean theology of emancipation and decolonization. Arguably, their political theological discourse is an attempt to engage the Caribbe…
Viv Dechoukaj, Long Live Uprooting! Aristide’s Politico-theology of Defensive Violence in the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti
The essay has a twofold objectives. First, it analyzes the complex relationships of popular violence, gansterization, and chimerization associated with Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s political leadership and actions during his second presidential administration. Secondly, it examines Aristide’s first politico-theological treatise, 100 Vese Dechoukaj Va T’en Satan! to study whether he has formulated or articulated a theology of violence and aggression t…
Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity
This essay examines the work of two prominent progressive Haitian Theologians: Laënnec Hurbon, a Catholic Theologian and former Priest, and Jean Fils-Aimé, a Protestant Theologian and former Pastor in Montreal, and their interaction with the Vodou religion. Both thinkers have written prolifically about the three major religious expressions in Haiti and the enduring religious conflict between Protestantism, Catholicism, and Vodou in the Caribbean …
The Fear of French Negroes
Reviewed by: The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas by Sarah E. Johnson Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Johnson, Sarah E. The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: U of California P, 2012. The title of the book, The Fear of French Negroes, is an oft-mentioned expression in contemporary accounts of the Haitian Revolution; the phrase draws attention both …
The Rhetoric of Suffering, Hope, and Redemption in Masters of the Dew
Jacques Roumain’s 1944 peasant novel, Gouverneurs de la roséé ( Masters of the Dew, 1947) is not only a testament to stunning literary skill but also a masterwork of profound theological and philosophical reflection that articulates a robust humanistic and theo-political response to the problem of evil, suffering, pain, and poverty in the world. The objective of this article is twofold. First, it explores the intersections of the rhetoric of suff…
Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo by Thomas S Anderson
Reviewed by: Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo by Thomas S Anderson Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Anderson, Thomas S. Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2011. In Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo, Thomas Anderson analyzes the relationship between Cuban culture and national identity in ten carnival-inspired poems influenced by Afro-Cuban cust…
The Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars was a towering figure in the discipline of Africana studies and a passionate proponent of the revalorization of African retentions in the Black diaspora, especially on Haitian soil. Scholars have identified him as the Francophone counterpart of W. E. B. Du Bois for his activism, scholarly rigor, leadership efficiency, and efforts in the rehabilitation of the Black race. In Haitian thought, he is regarded as the most important Hait…
Divine Discontent
Reviewed by: Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Kahn, Jonathon S. Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. Recent scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois and religion has yet to develop a consensus; Du Bois’s biographers as well as historians of race and religion have expressed divergent opinions and described Du Bois’s religious sensibilities and i…
Africa Writes Back
Reviewed by: Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Currey, James . Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2008. Heinemann Press, a European publishing house based in London, entered Africa's literary sphere in 1958, when it published Chinua Achebe's classic and best-selling Things Fall Apart, the book that gave bir…
Universal Emancipation
Reviewed by: Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Nesbitt, Nick. Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. On January 1, 1804, Haiti's chief general Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus indicating the birth of the first black independent state in the history of the Western Hemisph…
Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity
This essay examines the work of two prominent progressive Haitian Theologians: Laënnec Hurbon, a Catholic Theologian and former Priest, and Jean Fils-Aimé, a Protestant Theologian and former Pastor in Montreal, and their interaction with the Vodou religion. Both thinkers have written prolifically about the three major religious expressions in Haiti and the enduring religious conflict between Protestantism, Catholicism, and Vodou in the Caribbean …
Africa Writes Back
Reviewed by: Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Currey, James . Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2008. Heinemann Press, a European publishing house based in London, entered Africa's literary sphere in 1958, when it published Chinua Achebe's classic and best-selling Things Fall Apart, the book that gave bir…
Universal Emancipation
Reviewed by: Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Nesbitt, Nick. Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. On January 1, 1804, Haiti's chief general Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus indicating the birth of the first black independent state in the history of the Western Hemisph…
The Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars was a towering figure in the discipline of Africana studies and a passionate proponent of the revalorization of African retentions in the Black diaspora, especially on Haitian soil. Scholars have identified him as the Francophone counterpart of W. E. B. Du Bois for his activism, scholarly rigor, leadership efficiency, and efforts in the rehabilitation of the Black race. In Haitian thought, he is regarded as the most important Hait…
Divine Discontent
Reviewed by: Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Kahn, Jonathon S. Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. Recent scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois and religion has yet to develop a consensus; Du Bois’s biographers as well as historians of race and religion have expressed divergent opinions and described Du Bois’s religious sensibilities and i…
The Rhetoric of Suffering, Hope, and Redemption in Masters of the Dew
Jacques Roumain’s 1944 peasant novel, Gouverneurs de la roséé ( Masters of the Dew, 1947) is not only a testament to stunning literary skill but also a masterwork of profound theological and philosophical reflection that articulates a robust humanistic and theo-political response to the problem of evil, suffering, pain, and poverty in the world. The objective of this article is twofold. First, it explores the intersections of the rhetoric of suff…
Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo by Thomas S Anderson
Reviewed by: Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo by Thomas S Anderson Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Anderson, Thomas S. Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2011. In Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo, Thomas Anderson analyzes the relationship between Cuban culture and national identity in ten carnival-inspired poems influenced by Afro-Cuban cust…
The Fear of French Negroes
Reviewed by: The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas by Sarah E. Johnson Celucien L. Joseph (bio) Johnson, Sarah E. The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: U of California P, 2012. The title of the book, The Fear of French Negroes, is an oft-mentioned expression in contemporary accounts of the Haitian Revolution; the phrase draws attention both …
Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity
This essay examines the work of two prominent progressive Haitian Theologians: Laënnec Hurbon, a Catholic Theologian and former Priest, and Jean Fils-Aimé, a Protestant Theologian and former Pastor in Montreal, and their interaction with the Vodou religion. Both thinkers have written prolifically about the three major religious expressions in Haiti and the enduring religious conflict between Protestantism, Catholicism, and Vodou in the Caribbean …
Viv Dechoukaj, Long Live Uprooting! Aristide’s Politico-theology of Defensive Violence in the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti
The essay has a twofold objectives. First, it analyzes the complex relationships of popular violence, gansterization, and chimerization associated with Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s political leadership and actions during his second presidential administration. Secondly, it examines Aristide’s first politico-theological treatise, 100 Vese Dechoukaj Va T’en Satan! to study whether he has formulated or articulated a theology of violence and aggression t…
Towards a Caribbean Political Theology of Emancipation and Decolonization
This essay examines the contributions of four Caribbean theologians to the disciplines of theology and anthropology, and human rights conversations. Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti), Idris Hamid (Trinidad), Noel Leo Erskine (Jamaica), and D.H. Kortright Davis (Antigua and Barbuda) articulate a common vision of a Caribbean theology of emancipation and decolonization. Arguably, their political theological discourse is an attempt to engage the Caribbe…
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat
The Meaning of James H. Cone and the Significance of Black Theology
For many critics, James H. Cone, “The Father” of Black liberation theology, was America’s most important (Black) theologian in the twentieth-century who had energetically engaged the urgent issues of America’s race relations, justice, Black suffering, and civil rights. He wrote and spoke loudly against what he called "America’s Original Sin”, (White) racism, and thus pressed upon White Americans, especially White Christians in America, to stop pr…
James H. Cone and Black Theology
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities
Chelsea Stieber. Haiti’s Paper War
In Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954, Chelsea Stieber offers an insightful critique of Haiti’s nineteenth-century demands for recognition on the international scene through two contested views and ideologies of governance. Haitian monarchy is associated with the ideas and political vision of Haiti’s first emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques 1er: 1804–1806). By contrast, Haitia…
The Attitude of Vodouyizan towards Christians in Haiti
In this essay, I analyse the language and message of two songs that are written within the framework of a postcolonial critique of imperial and neo-colonial Christianity. In both songs, the artists make counter claims toward Christianity and call the Haitin people to reject its colonized form and reclaim their ancestral faith of Vodou. The first lyric, “Guede/Gede,” is a rasin song (roots music) composed by the famous Haitian band Rasin Bwa Kayim…
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