ALBERT CLEAGE JR. AND THE BLACK MADONNA AND CHILD by Jawanza Eric Clark (Editor) ( 9781137546883 )

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ALBERT CLEAGE JR. AND THE BLACK MADONNA AND CHILD

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ISBN 10:

1137546883

ISBN 13:

9781137546883

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

31 August, 2016

Edition:

1st ed. 2016

Series:

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Pages:

303

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

3 Tables, color; 3 Illustrations, color; XVII, 303 p. 3 illus. in color.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-returnable

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