Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

In this collection, black religious scholars and pastors whose expertise range from theology, ethics, and the psychology of religion, to preaching, religious aesthetics, and religious education, discuss the legacy of Albert B. Cleage Jr. and the idea of the Black Madonna and child. Easter Sunday, 2017 will mark the fifty year anniversary of Albert B. Cleage Jr.'s unveiling of a mural of the Black Madonna and child in his church in Detroit, Michigan. This unveiling symbolized a radical theological departure and disruption. The mural helped symbolically launch Black Christian Nationalism and influenced the Black Power movement in the United States. But fifty years later, what has been the lasting impact of this act of theological innovation? What is the legacy of Cleage's emphasis on the literal blackness of Jesus? How has the idea of a Black Madonna and child informed notions of black womanhood, motherhood? LGBTQ communities? How has Cleage's theology influenced Christian education, Africana pastoral theology, and the Black Arts Movement? The contributors to this work discuss answers to these and many more questions.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Jawanza Eric Clark
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	303
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-54688-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Christianity > Christian theology Promotions
LSN:	1-137-54688-3
Barcode:	9781137546883

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