Religion of the Field Negro

On Black Secularism and Black Theology

Bibliographic Data

ID19910245
AuthorsVincent Lloyd (corresponding author), Vincent William Lloyd (corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReligion of the Field Negro (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherFordham University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780823277667
OpenAlexW2781729848
ISBN9780823277667
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Black theology has lost its direction. To reclaim its original power and to advance racial justice struggles today black theology must fully embrace blackness and theology. But multiculturalism and religious pluralism have boxed in black theology, forcing it to speak in terms dictated by a power structure founded on white supremacy. In Religion of the Field Negro, Vincent W. Lloyd advances and develops black theology immodestly, privileging the perspective of African Americans and employing a distinctively theological analysis.As Lloyd argues, secularism is entangled with the disciplining impulses of modernity, with neoliberal economics, and with Western imperialism – but it also contaminates and castrates black theology. Inspired by critics of secularism in other fields, Religion of the Field Negro probes the subtle ways in which religion is excluded and managed in black culture

Black theology · Field (mathematics) · Islam · Pure mathematics · Secularism · Sociology · Theology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies

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