A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience
* A serious look at the larger cultural, theological, and philosophical issues that face black religion today * A new way of evaluating slave narratives, suffering, and the role of the churches
Describes the knowledge Brokering has received from the people, places and events of his life. This work aims to inspire readers to reflect on what they would wish to leave their loved ones. Each chapter includes a Bible passage for reflection.
The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, like the Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrim figure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each rises to progressively higher levels of understanding and culminates in a supreme intellectual vision. The higher levels contain and surpass earlier ......
Exploring the Spirituality and Identity of Younger Men
What is the state of faith among younger men in the church? How is the church responding to their spiritual needs? Armed with these questions, the authors conducted interviews with young men of differing life and faith experiences, and differing ethnic backgrounds in six regions of the US. This book is based on the results of this study.
Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church
This in-depth study of a Black congregation in Charleston, South Carolina provides a window into the tremendously important yet still largely overlooked world of African American religion as the faith is lived by ordinary believers.
Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church
This in-depth study of a Black congregation in Charleston, South Carolina provides a window into the tremendously important yet still largely overlooked world of African American religion as the faith is lived by ordinary believers.
In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical, social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There gleaming skyscrapers tower over struggling ghettos, abandoned businesses mar upscale shopping areas, and tall-steeple churches sometimes languish where storefront mosques ......
Each major life transition gives us a chance, Bankson proposes, "to name what we are here for." Using mythical archetypes, biblical and personal stories, she presents a revealing six-stage soulwork cycle to help us find our calling. A valuable resource for people seeking to nurture their spiritual growth, individually, in groups, or with a ......
