1st Edition

Theologising Brexit A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique

By Anthony G. Reddie Copyright 2019
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population view and judge their compatriots. The subsequent rise in the reported number of racially motivated incidents and the climate of vilification and... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Behind the Scenes  1 Setting the Scene  2 Courting Controversy: The Anti Blackness Problematic of Mission Christianity  3 Mind Games: Decolonizing Mission Christianity  4 Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Subjectivity, Blackness and Difference in Practical Theology in Brexit Britain  5 Being the Enemy Within   Part 2: Responding to the Challenge  6 Reading the Bible and Multiple Religious Belonging  7 Education and Learning to be Different  Part 3: The Critical Challenge of the Other  8 Rastafari and Black Theology  9 Doing it Our Way: Caribbean Theology, Contextualisation and Cricket  10 Telling the Truth and Shaming the Devil

Biography

Anthony G. Reddie is an Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa and a Fellow of Wesley House, in Cambridge, UK. He has written over 70 essays and articles on Christian education and Black theology and is the author and editor of 17 books. He is editor of Black Theology: An International Journal, the only academic periodical of its kind in the world.