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Spirit(s) in Black Religion

Fire on the Inside

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Authors:
  1. Kurt Buhring

    1. Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, USA

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  • Explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions
  • Makes a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black pneumatology
  • Offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action

Part of the book series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice (BRWT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Spirit(s) in Africa: African Traditional Religions

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 21-43

  4. The Spirit(s) in the Diaspora: African-Derived Religions

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 45-97

  5. The Spirit(s) in Slavery: African American Christianity

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 99-144

  6. The Spirit in the Sanctified Church

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 145-183

  7. The Spirit in Modern Black Theology and Religion

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 185-232

  8. The Spirit in Contemporary Black Theology and Religion

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 233-267

  9. A Theology of the Spirit(s)

    • Kurt Buhring
    Pages 269-307

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 309-313
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About this book

In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich resources within African and African-based religions to develop a more robust notion of the Holy Spirit for contemporary Black liberation theology. In so doing, Buhring offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action. The theology offered maintains the fundamental claim that God acts as liberator of the oppressed, while also calling for greater human responsibility and capability for bringing about liberation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, USA

    Kurt Buhring

About the author

Kurt Buhring is Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Theology at Saint Mary’s College (IN), and the author of Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He teaches and researches the areas of Black theology, Jewish theology, social justice activism, religion and science, and interfaith relations.

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