Overview
- Provides a deep and holistic exploration of black perspectives on American Empire and U.S. foreign policy
- First book to provide a demonstration of the ongoing significance of James Cone’s work
- Provides a constructive statement and declaration on the theology, experience, and history of the American Empire
Part of the book series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice (BRWT)
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This book understands, interprets, and critiques the theology of the American Empire that undergirds and bolsters U.S. foreign policy and global engagement in the contemporary world order. It is particularly in conversation with African American experience, American presidential history, black religious and political thought, as well as black theological perspectives. The book makes a constructive theological statement and declaration on the American Empire in opposition and resistance to racism and white supremacy in U.S. origins and historical development. Finally it proposes a way forward for twenty-first century black theology in response to the foundational theology of James Cone. This publication is important, not only for scholars interested in black religious thought, but also those seeking critical reflection on the omnipresence of racial inequality and social injustice in the American Empire.
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About the author
Karl W. Lampley graduated from Harvard University cum laude in Social Studies, earned a Masters of Divinity from Claremont School of Theology, and received a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has taught at Hanover College and currently teaches contemporary theology, the Christian Tradition, and American religious history at Santa Clara University. He is the author of A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Black Theology of the American Empire
Authors: Karl W. Lampley
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76499-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-76498-1Published: 17 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-76501-8Due: 31 December 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-76499-8Published: 16 December 2024
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 151
Topics: Black Theology, Christianity