Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African spirituality--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worldviews. Paris's careful scholarship and his eye for value in varying cultural milieus combine to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.
Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African spirituality--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worl...
This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: struggles against theories of white supremacy, against chattel slavery, and against racial segregation and discrimination. The latter sections turn to the black Christian vision of human flourishing, drawing on perspectives from the arts,...
This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore...
