Black Liberation Theologies

This course discusses the many strands of liberation theology in the United States, including Womanist theology. In addition to black liberation theology’s methodologies and its challenges to the theological discipline, we explore the origins and development of theological discourse in the late 1960s during the later part of the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of the Black Power Movement. The course also explores how liberation theologies attempt to deal with the problems of race, class and gender. Students are introduced to theological construction in African American communities and analyze the similarities and differences between these theological constructions.