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A Year Of Extremes, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton
A Year Of Extremes, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
What an incredible year! A year of almost inconceivable highs, and lows that bore down into our very beings, the time since we met last October has filled us with high hopes as well as dark fears. These conflicted realities are reflected both in our lives and in our work. For most BCTS members, indeed, for most Americans, the election of our first African American president was one of the most significant moments of our lives. I’ll never forget when Obama was declared victor shortly after 11:00 pm EST on November 4, 2008. As late as it was, I picked …
What A Difference A Year Makes, Cecilia Moore
What A Difference A Year Makes, Cecilia Moore
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
I’d like to reflect briefly on the election of President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden in 2008 and their inauguration in January 2009, on the historical significance of the election, and my hopes for cooperation between the Black Catholic community and the Obama Administration in working for social justice. On January 20, 2009, I joined my sister, Margaret, my brother, Mark, and a million or more of our fellow citizens on the nation’s Mall to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden. In freezing temperatures, without access to restrooms for more than 14 hours, and …
Code Black: A Black Catholic Liberation Bioethics, Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes S.S.N.D.
Code Black: A Black Catholic Liberation Bioethics, Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes S.S.N.D.
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Based on a paper delivered during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Daniels-Sykes, S.S.N.D., proposes that the long history of neglect and abuse suffered by blacks at the hands of the health care industry results from entrenched assumptions fostered by Western philosophies and principles that guide mainstream medical ethics, particularly in light of the 1979 Belmont Report, produced in response to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. That the report failed to take into consideration the circumstances of poverty and race, factors key to our understanding those victimized by the Study, underscores the prevailing implicit assumptions of black inferiority. Daniels-Sykes advises …
Cover And Front Matter, Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Cover And Front Matter, Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Cover, table of contents, administrative information
Voices From The Margins: African Women’S Hermeneutics, James Chukwuma Okoye C.S.Sp.
Voices From The Margins: African Women’S Hermeneutics, James Chukwuma Okoye C.S.Sp.
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
In this article delivered during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Okoye describes several landmarks in African biblical interpretation from the various lenses of race, class, and gender. From the early days of a culturally-sensitive African hermeneutics in the 1960s, to modern popular readings of the Bible, to women’s unique readings of the shades of meaning therein, Okoye focus on the intersection points of biblical and cultural interpretation and the ways a marginalized people have found meaning in the Bible.
Review — Tim Wise, Between Barack And A Hard Place: Racism And Denial In The Age Of Obama , Cyprian Davis O.S.B.
Review — Tim Wise, Between Barack And A Hard Place: Racism And Denial In The Age Of Obama , Cyprian Davis O.S.B.
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
No abstract provided.
The Flames Of Namugongo: Issues Around Theological Narrativity, Heteronormativity, Globalization, And Aids In Africa, Ken Hamilton S.V.D
The Flames Of Namugongo: Issues Around Theological Narrativity, Heteronormativity, Globalization, And Aids In Africa, Ken Hamilton S.V.D
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
Hamilton’s paper, delivered during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago, uses the hagiography of Charles Lwanga and the Martyrs of Uganda to reveal an unrelenting problem of the Church – the ways in which the assumptions of heternormativity and sodomitical discourse drown out the voices of those who do not fall into heteronormative sexual and/or gendered identities, and lead to the open persecution, imprisonment, and torture of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons in Uganda, and in fact all over Africa. Casting those with ‘othered’ sexual identities as evil, or even simply turning a deaf ear to the persecution faced …
Review — Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather’S Son: A Memoir, Robert L. Bartlett
Review — Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather’S Son: A Memoir, Robert L. Bartlett
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
No abstract provided.
Review — M. Shawn Copeland, Lareine-Marie Mosely, And Albert Raboteau, Eds., Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton
Review — M. Shawn Copeland, Lareine-Marie Mosely, And Albert Raboteau, Eds., Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium
No abstract provided.