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Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking the left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law-- God's law--have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, mobilizing communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may catalyze group reflection and mobilization, all people are capable of discerning the higher law using their human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, Lloyd argues, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: either overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and all of today's stark racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While it draws particularly on African American resources, the book speaks to all who seek a politics animated by justice.

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A Critical Introduction to Religion inthe Americas arguesthat we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding itsmarginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religiousstudies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberationtheology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways inwhich religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberationtheology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out oftouch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth,where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individualrelationships with the divine.Bydrawing on a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, this volume providesa basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a,Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframedto better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real peoplethe theologians' work is meant to represent. Informed bythe dialogue partners explored throughout the text, this volume presents ahemispheric approach to discussing lived religious movements. While notdismissive of liberation theologies, this approach is critical of their pastand offers challenges to their future as well as suggestions for preventingtheir untimely demise. It is clear that the liberation theologies of tomorrowcannot look like the liberation theologies of today.

Liberation theology --- African Americans --- Blacks --- Hispanic Americans --- Latin Americans --- 241.1*31 <8=6> --- 241.1*31 <73> --- Latinxs --- Ethnology --- Theology of liberation --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Kairos documents --- Philosophy of liberation --- 241.1*31 <73> Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 241.1*31 <8=6> Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie--Latijns Amerika --- Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie--Latijns Amerika --- Religion --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- Religion.

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"This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--

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