{"id":1598,"date":"2013-01-28T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/black-religion-scholarships-public-reach.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T09:06:00","slug":"black-religion-scholarships-public-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/black-religion-scholarships-public-reach.html","title":{"rendered":"BLACK RELIGION SCHOLARSHIP\u2019S PUBLIC REACH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In a richly insightful reflection on the public contributions and prospects of black religion scholarship, Gayraud Wilmore\u2019s 1999 essay on \u201cBlack Theology at the Turn of the Century\u201d (published in Dwight Hopkins\u2019\u00a0Black Faith and Public Talk)<\/i>\u00a0outlines several \u201cunmet needs\u201d pertaining to \u201cthe future of African American religious thought and praxis.\u201d One of the unmet needs identified by Wilmore is \u201ca renewed contact and bonding with African, Caribbean, and black Latin American churches, mosques, intellectuals and religious leaders\u201d and with the \u201creligiously oriented African Diaspora\u201d in England, the European continent, and elsewhere. \u201cThe time is ripe for our church people and theologians to forge new, mutually beneficial relationships with brothers and sisters abroad,\u201d writes Wilmore thirty years after \u201cBlack Theology\u201d began coursing its way through black religious thought and practice, and five years after the 1994 democratic transition in South Africa signaled the end of white minority rule on the African continent.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0African American religion scholars have made progress toward meeting the challenge outlined by Wilmore, including through African American engagement with such initiatives as the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians; through transnational collaborative research initiatives by scholars such as Dwight Hopkins, Peter Paris, and others; and through international conversations convened by SSBR in places such as Jamaica, Brazil, and Ontario. Yet, black religion scholars are a long way from fully embracing Professor Wilmore\u2019s challenge, especially as it relates to the kind of engagement of public issues and black popular struggles he calls for in his essay.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In a richly insightful reflection on the public contributions and prospects of black religion scholarship, Gayraud Wilmore\u2019s 1999 essay on \u201cBlack Theology at the Turn of the Century\u201d (published in Dwight Hopkins\u2019\u00a0Black Faith and Public Talk)\u00a0outlines several \u201cunmet needs\u201d pertaining to \u201cthe future of African American religious thought and praxis.\u201d One of the unmet needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBLACK RELIGION SCHOLARSHIP\u2019S PUBLIC REACH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a richly insightful reflection on the public contributions and prospects of black religion scholarship, Gayraud Wilmore\u2019s 1999 essay on \u201cBlack Theology\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/black-religion-scholarships-public-reach.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BLACK RELIGION SCHOLARSHIP\u2019S PUBLIC REACH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a richly insightful reflection on the public contributions and prospects of black religion scholarship, Gayraud Wilmore\u2019s 1999 essay on \u201cBlack Theology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/black-religion-scholarships-public-reach.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-28T09:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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