| Title: | Anti-Racist Christian Theology |
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| Course Section Number: | BLS-300-01 |
| Department: | Black Studies |
| Description: | REL-373-01=BLS-300-01 "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." -- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. The world is finally understanding that there can be no teaching about race that is not also teaching against racism. This course will compare the Black experience in the United States, and theological reflection thereon, with Black experience under the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa. We begin by examining first-person narratives from Black and White Americans on the harms done by racism. We will do the same with Black (Bantu), White and the so-called "Cape-Coloured" South Africans. Then we will look at histories told about how the parallel systems of oppression were conceived, installed and how they functioned. The last half of the class explores arguments made by James Cone on how the cross of Jesus Christ looks like (and unlike) a lynching tree; by South African Allan Boesak on the dangerous but tantalizing specter of "hope"; and by the womanist theologian Kelly Brown Douglas on theology in the wake of the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 16, 2023 |
| End Date: | May 6, 2023 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/17/2023-05/04/2023 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 08:00AM - 09:15AM, Center Hall, Room 300
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| Faculty: | Nelson, Derek |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 16 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 4 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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