Research Catalog

Title

Speculations on Black life : the collected writings of William R. Jones / edited by Darrell Jones, Monifa Love, and Anthony B. Pinn.

Author

Jones, William R. (William Ronald)

Publication

London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Darrell (Dancer)
• Love, Monifa A.
• Pinn, Anthony B.
• Paris, Peter J., 1933-

Description

xviii, 220 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"Is God a white racist? Posed by William R. Jones in his ground-breaking book of the same name, this question disrupted the theological assumptions that marked Black religious thought from early writings of the 1800s to the formation of Black theology in the 1960s. This book compiles his key and essential writings related to over three decades of critical reflection on race, religion, secularism, and oppression in the United States. Over the course of 30 years, Jones pushed questions and considerations that refined Black theology and that gave greater shape to and understanding of Black philosophers' intervention into issues of racial and structural inequality. His philosophical work, related to the grid of oppression, fosters an approach to the nature and meaning of oppression in the United States, encouraging rational interrogation of structures of injustice and thought patterns supporting those structures. Still relevant today, the straightforward style of communication used by Jones makes these essays easily accessible to a popular audience, while maintaining intellectual rigor making the book also suitable for an academy-based audience." --

Series Statement

Bloomsbury studies in black religion and cultures

Subject

• Jones, William R
• Black theology
• Religion
• Race relations > Religion
• Race relations
• United States > Religion
• United States > Race relations
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Peter J. Paris -- Introduction. Seeing through the difficult : William R. Jones and his speculations on black life / Monifa Love -- Part I: (Black) humanism. Chapter 1: Black power and unitarianism: a personal view / William R. Jones -- Chapter 2: Theism and religious humanism : the chasm narrows / William R. Jones -- Chapter 3: The case for black humanism / William R. Jones -- Chapter 4: Religious humanism : its problems and prospects in black religion and culture / William R. Jones -- Chapter 5: Oppression, race, and humanism / William R. Jones -- Chapter 6: Is faith in God necessary for a just society? : insights from liberation theology / William R. Jones -- Part II: Philosophical theology. Chapter 7: Reconciliation and liberation in black theology : some implications for religious education / William R. Jones -- Chapter 8: Theodicy : the controlling category for black theology / William R. Jones -- Chapter 9: The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones -- Chapter 10: Purpose and method in liberation theology : implications for an interim assessment / William R. Jones -- Chapter 11: Moral decision-making in the post-modern world : implications for Unitarian-Universalist religious education / William R. Jones -- Part III: The politics of race. Chapter 12: Power and anti-power / William R. Jones -- Chapter 13: Religion as legitimator and liberator : insights from the underclass for public policy / William R. Jones -- Chapter 14: Hypocrisy, bibliocracy, and democracy : implications for gays and lesbians in the military / William R. Jones -- Chapter 15: The disguises of discrimination : civil rights, 1954-65 / William R. Jones -- Chapter 16: Toward a new paradigm for uncovering neo-racism in American institutions / William R. Jones -- Part IV: Critical reflection on Jones's writings. Essay 1: The debate that shaped a field : William R. Jones and developments in black theology / Anthony B. Pinn -- Essay 2: Neo-racism and the shortcomings of religious liberalism / Jamil W. Drake -- Essay 3: Expanding the altar : transgressing and transforming conventional boundaries in black liberation theology / Brittany L. O'Neal -- Afterword / Darrell Jones.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1073

ISBN

• 9781350338746
• 1350338745
• 9781350338760 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350338753 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1336889210

Author

Jones, William R. (William Ronald), author.

Title

Speculations on Black life : the collected writings of William R. Jones / edited by Darrell Jones, Monifa Love, and Anthony B. Pinn.

Publisher

London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury studies in black religion and cultures

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Jones, Darrell (Dancer), editor.

Love, Monifa A., editor.

Pinn, Anthony B., editor.

Paris, Peter J., 1933- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1073