Must God Remain Greek?: Afro Cultures and God-Talk

by Robert E. Hood

Overview

Preface
Introduction

PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS

1. African Indigenous Churches
   The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
   The Cherubim and Seraphim Church
   The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)
   Zionist Churches in South Africa
   Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)
   Ingigenous Elements of Worship
   
2. Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches
   Haitian Voodoo
   Cuban Santeria
   Trinidadian Shango
   Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions
   º Native Baptists
   º Myalism
   º Kumina
   º Jamaican Revivalism
   
3. Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures
   South Africa's Apartheid Culture
   South African Liberation Theology
   Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)
   
   PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH
   
4. Christian Theology and Afro Cultures
   Culture and the Grammer of Faith
   Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures
   
5. God: Traditional Motifs
   God in African Traditional Religion
   Attributes of God
   º Divine Ubiquity
   º Divine Creator
   º Divine Pastoral Care
   
   The Religious Worldview of Africans
   
6. Christ: A Son Out of Egypt
   Boundaries of Christology
   Christ as the Anointment One
   Christ as Lord of the Heavens
   Christ as Healer
   The Liberator and the Liberated
   
7. Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures
   The Biblical Tradition
   The Dogmatic Tradition
   The African Tradition
   Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures
   The Spirit and Black American Religion
   Spirits in Black Culture
   
8. Ancestors and Saints
   Hagiolatry and the Ancestors
   º Ancestorship in the Caribbean
   º Ancestors and Black American Religion
   Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors
   
   Epilogue
   Selected Bibliography
   Index
   Acknowledgments

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800624491
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	11/01/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Robert E. Hood (1936-1994) was Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for African-American Studies at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS

African Indigenous Churches

The Church of the Lord (Aladura)

The Cherubim and Seraphim Church

The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)

Zionist Churches in South Africa

Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)

Ingigenous Elements of Worship

Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches

Haitian Voodoo

Cuban Santeria

Trinidadian Shango

Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions

º Native Baptists

º Myalism

º Kumina

º Jamaican Revivalism

Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures

South Africa's Apartheid Culture

South African Liberation Theology

Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)

PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH

Christian Theology and Afro Cultures

Culture and the Grammer of Faith

Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures

God: Traditional Motifs

God in African Traditional Religion

Attributes of God

º Divine Ubiquity

º Divine Creator

º Divine Pastoral Care

The Religious Worldview of Africans

Christ: A Son Out of Egypt

Boundaries of Christology

Christ as the Anointment One

Christ as Lord of the Heavens

Christ as Healer

The Liberator and the Liberated

Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures

The Biblical Tradition

The Dogmatic Tradition

The African Tradition

Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures

The Spirit and Black American Religion

Spirits in Black Culture

Ancestors and Saints

Hagiolatry and the Ancestors

º Ancestorship in the Caribbean

º Ancestors and Black American Religion

Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments