Carlton Turner

Biographic Data

ID4000569
NAMECarlton Turner
GIVEN NAMESCarlton
FAMILY NAMETurner
SIGNATURETURNER C
AFFILIATIONSThe Queen's Foundation
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Wealth extraction/wealth distraction

    Carlton TurnerARTICLEPractical Theology2025

    Reparations for enslavement have become a growing conversation in the contemporary religious, academic, and political landscape of the UK in recent years. It is a risky and always potentially explosive conversation that demands theological attention to the complex and multiple legacies of empire and colonialism affecting Great Britain and her former colonies and territories. As a Caribbean Contextual and Practical theologian, I want to make the c…

  • Decolonization and the Inward Journey

    Open AccessCarlton TurnerARTICLEThe Ecumenical Review2025

    This article explores decolonial thinking as a necessary condition for ecumenical conversations in preparation for the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order in October 2025. Arising out of the complex history and experience of the African Caribbean and surveying the wide sweep of decolonial thinking coming out of the global South, this article considers the violence of coloniality, especially its presence in the continued emergence of the chu…

  • One Grand Noise

    Carlton J Turner, Carlton TurnerARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2023

    One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World is a welcomed and compelling research and argument into the importance of the Boxing Day traditions, not only in the Anglicized Caribbean World (ACW), but also within the larger global stage, historically, politically, economically, culturally, and theologically. Identifying them as sites of transnational and transcultural flows, Jerrilyn McGregory traces the emergence of the Boxing Da…

  • Deepening the Postcolonial Theological Gaze

    Carlton TurnerARTICLEModern Believing2021

    Postcolonialism is not simply an optic, but also a particular practice, a way of reading texts and contexts that sees the interconnections of the psychological, cultural and theological nature of the traumatic legacies of colonialism and empire. In this article, I reflect on postcolonial theology suggesting that any postcolonial gaze pay particularly attention to the psychological dimension of coloniality that continues to operate within Christia…

  • Mediating the Sacred between Junkanoo and the Church in Contemporary Bahamian Society

    Open AccessCarlton J Turner, Carlton TurnerARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2019

    It can be argued that theology in the Caribbean has, until recently, been reticent in engaging cultural studies, and particularly in using African Caribbean religiocultural heritages and art-forms such as carnival, reggae, stickfigting, Obeah and Myal, as examples, as sites for theological reflection. Undergirding this reticence is a colonially inherited belief in a dichotomy between the sacred and the secular; between the church and culture; and…

  • Vodou in the Haitian Experience

    Carlton J Turner, Carlton TurnerARTICLEBlack Theology2017

    The two-part edited work, Vodou in Haitian Memory and Vodou in the Haitian Experience, were published as a result of a call for papers towards a Vodou anthology in March 2014. The former seeks to i

  • Taming the Spirit? Widening the Pneumatological Gaze within African Caribbean Theological Discourse

    Carlton Turner, Carlton John TurnerARTICLEBlack Theology2015Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper is divided into two parts and is concerned with the need to revisit contemporary concepts of the Holy Spirit, particularly in African Caribbean theological discourse. Firstly, it explores the colonial context in which the Caribbean Church's concept of the Holy Spirit was formalized. The argument advanced here is that within the context of colonial religio-cultural oppression and the intense "othering" of the African person, pneumatolog…

  • Self-Negation within African Caribbean Christianity

    Carlton Turner, Carlton John TurnerARTICLEBlack Theology2013

    As part of the Anglophone African Caribbean, the Bahamas is such a society with varying degrees of embedded self-hatred akin to the psychology of the colonized that Frantz Fanon describes in Black Skin, White Masks, or the “double consciousness” W.E.B. DuBois coined in The Souls of Black Folk. One is hard pressed to find a better example of this than in the ambiguous attitudes towards Junkanoo, a carnival-like street festival integral to Bahamian…