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"Contains valuable information not easily available
elsewhere."--"Multicultural Review"
aThe author illuminates our deep racism in very clear ways,
including personal experiencesa
--Missiology Book Review
Gayraud S. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the
history of the African American church, is one of the founders of
black theology and author of "Black Religion and Black Radicalism,"
Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling
writings to speak to continuing issues in African American
Christianity and black theology. The volume makes available for the
first time several of Wilmore's previously unpublished essays,
including a new chapter on womanist theology written for this book.
Each chapter has been thoroughly reviewed and where appropriate
reworked for this volume in order to create a coherent work which
reveals a consistent "pragmatic spirituality" in African and
African American religious practice. This book presents a view of
the Christian faith and life at variance with the quest for
personal sanctity by emphasizing communal empowerment for
humanization and justice.
Pragmatic Spirituality incorporates some of the most engaging of
Wilmore's voluminous writings to reinstate a persistent theme: that
black or Africentric faith transposes itself from basically
numinous and ecstatic elements in African and African diasporic
religions to the immediate and practical work of healing and
empowering the poor and marginalized. This book transcends a narrow
Africentrism to call for a broad acquaintance with a historic motif
in black faith that has to do with compassion, justice, equality,
and the liberation of all people.
This illuminating volume displays Wilmore's influence on the
development of black theology for over fifty years, and introduces
his work to a new generation of scholars.
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