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Selfless Revolutionaries


Selfless Revolutionaries

Biko, Black Consciousness, Black Theology, and a Global Ethic of Solidarity and Resistance

von: Allan Aubrey Boesak

41,99 €

Verlag: Wipf And Stock Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 23.07.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781725285934
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 330

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At this historic moment of global revolutions for social justice inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the philosophy of Black Consciousness has reemerged and gripped the imagination of a new generation, and of the merciless exposure by COVD-19 of the devastating, long-existent fault lines in our societies. Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, and Steve Biko have been rediscovered and reclaimed. In this powerful book Black liberation theologian and activist Allan Boesak explores the deep connections between Black Consciousness, Black theology, and the struggles against racism, domination, and imperial brutality across the world today. In a careful, meticulous, and sometimes surprising rereading of Steve Biko's classic, I Write What I Like, Boesak reflects on the astounding relevance of Black Consciousness for the current academic debates on decolonization and coloniality, Africanity and imperialism, as well as for the struggles for freedom, justice, and human dignity in the streets. With passion, forthrightness, and inspiring eloquence Boesak brings his considerable political experience and deep theological insight to bear in his argument for a global ethic of solidarity and resistance in the ongoing struggles against empire. Beginning with Biko's "Where do we go from here?," progressing to Baldwin's "the fire next time," and ending with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "There is no stopping short of victory," this is a sobering, hopeful, and inspiring book.
Allan Aubrey Boesak is a South African liberation theologian, global human rights activist, and professor of Black Liberation Ethics at the University of Pretoria. Inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Board of Preachers, he is the award-winning author of several books, including
<i>Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of 21st Century Empire </i>(2019).
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<i>Selfless Revolutionaries</i> reminds us of the prophetic genius of Allan Aubrey Boesak and his indefatigable commitment to justice and equity for all people, especially those deemed as ‘the least of these.’ The introduction, entitled ‘Biko Lives,’ sets the scene for a powerful, no-holds-barred restatement for the continued necessity of Black theology as the bedrock upon which the future South Africa, and indeed the world, should be based. This is essential in order that people of color finally have the justice and dignity that has been denied them for centuries. Quite simply, this book is a must read!”
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<br> —Anthony G. Reddie, director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture and editor of
<i>Black Theology: An International Journal</i>
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<br> “This powerful book analyzes enduring legacies of racial colonization within South Africa and beyond, and also details a new generation of student mobilization against those legacies. Pointing especially to Steve Biko’s defiant black consciousness thrust, Dr. Boesak tracks the continuing global influence of several key twentieth-century racial justice prophets, providing strategic points of connection across generations and continents. This is essential reading at this current moment of intensified racial ferment.”
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<br> —R. Drew Smith, co-convener, Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race
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<br> “Allan Boesak is our Martin Luther King and James Cone rolled into one. Only someone with his talents, his knowledge of written, taught, and lived black theology, at home and abroad, can attempt as majestic, as epic, and as global a survey of black theological thought on the world today. He could not have chosen a better frame than the thought of Steve Biko and the idea of black consciousness—both of which he read very closely and most engagingly.”
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<br> —Tinyiko Maluleke, professor, University of Pretoria
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