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Pan‐Africanism and African‐American Liberation in a Postmodern World: A Review Essay
Author(s) -
Gordon Lewis R.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/0384-9694.00020
Subject(s) - postmodernism , criticism , black theology , relation (database) , sociology , secularism , diversity (politics) , gender studies , religious studies , theology , epistemology , philosophy , anthropology , political science , islam , law , database , computer science
This review essay explores Josiah Young's project of developing a liberatory Pan‐Africanism that is attuned to cultural diversity and Victor Anderson's advocacy of postmodern cultural criticism in African‐American religious thought. After situating African‐American religious thought as a branch of Africana thought, the author examines these two religious thinkers' work as an effort to forge a position on African‐American religious thought—including its relation to theology—in an age where even theory is treated as a god that is about to die. At the conclusion, secularism emerges as a religious project that normatively undergirds the methodological dimensions of these works.