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Essay in new book - Teaching all Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

2/4/2014

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I'm proud to have an essay in this new book. Well done Mitzi!

"That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those efforts by the "Great Commission"—the risen Christ's command to "go into all the world" and "teach all nations"—has more often been observed than analyzed, however. With the rise of European colonialism, the Great Commission was suddenly taken up with an eschatological urgency, often explicit in the founding statements of missionary societies; the differentiation of "teachers" and "nations" waiting to be "taught" proved a ready-made sacred sanction for the racialized and androcentric logics of conquest and "civilization."

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'Faith, Stories and the Experience of Black Elders...

2/4/2014

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Last morning in Ja. One of the great subtexts of my time here has been the stories of faith & fortitude of my parents. Listening to their stories reminded me of the research I did to write 'Faith, Stories and the Experience of Black Elders...' (details in the link below). That book has been in my mind for several days now.
So imagine my joy when a former student emailed me to say that a group of people at her church are studying the book as part of their training to be preachers & could I suggest ways in which she could get hold of cheaper 2nd hand copies. The importance of narrative as a means of establishing identity and conferring meaning can never be over exaggerated. This book is dedicated to Lucille & Noel Reddie & I'm proud to be their son!
http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781853029936
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Thoughts on 12 Years A Slave

2/4/2014

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I awoke with some of the images from '12 Years A Slave' seared into my mind. The recent state approved 'assassination' of Mark Duggan and the acquital of the murderer of Trayvon Martin are brutal reminders of the noxious legacy of slavery.... I wrote this a few years ago in the introduction to 'Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity'. 
 "The existence of racism in Britain today and in many parts of the so-called developed West, as we speak, is testament to the continuance of the underlying Eurocentric Judeo-Christian framework that invariably caricatured Africans as 'Less than' and 'the other'...The unfinished business of slavery and its damnable legacy can be seen in the continued impact of racism (slavery's more duplicitous offspring) on Black bodies in contemporary Britain". p.23.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667278

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