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Black Catholic Studies Reader

History and Theology

This first-ever Black Catholic Studies Reader offers an introduction to the theology and history of the Black Catholic experience from those who know it best: Black Catholic scholars, teachers, activists, and ministers. The reader offers a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach that illuminates what it means to be Black and Catholic in the United States.

This collection of essays from prominent scholars, both past and present, brings together contributions from theologians M. Shawn Copeland, Kim Harris, Diana Hayes, Bryan Massingale, and C. Vanessa White, and historians Cecilia Moore, Diane Batts Morrow, and Ronald Sharps, and selections from an earlier generation of thinkers and activists, including Thea Bowman, Cyprian Davis, and Clarence Rivers.

Contributions delve into the interlocking fields of history, spirituality, liturgy, and biography. Through their contributions, Black Catholic Studies scholars engage theologies of liberation and the reality of racism, the Black struggle for recognition within the Church, and the distinctiveness of African-inspired spirituality, prayer, and worship.

By considering their racial and religious identities, these select Black Catholic theologians and historians add their voices to the contemporary conversation surrounding culture, race, and religion in America, inviting engagement from students and teachers of the American experience, social commentators and advocates, and theologians and persons of faith.

About the Authors

David J. Endres is dean of the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary's Seminary and editor of U.S. Catholic Historian.

Reviews

"This anthology is a prelude to highlighting the contributions that we Black Catholics have made to the Church in the United States and are eager to continue off ering to the entire Church as a valuable gift and contribution to our one family of faith. I recommend it highly as a valuable tool and resource."—from the foreword by Wilton Cardinal Gregory

"Given the recent and ever-present racial reckoning for racial justice by Black people in America, the Black Catholic Studies Reader is most timely. While this text acknowledges the 400 years of enslavement of Black populations in the Americas, the contributors are also cognizant of the residual effects that persist to this day and their essays reflect the ongoing struggles that Black Catholics contend with both in civic and ecclesial settings... Each essay poignantly invites the reader to a consequential discovery of the theologizing, significant historical contributions, spiritual virtues, values, resistance, and resilience, liturgical adaptation and liturgical justice through Black sacred songs, musicality, and the enduring sustenance of the spirituals, aesthetic inculturation, and the valiant lives, scholarly writings, religiosity, and intellectual sensibilities of African American Catholics Well researched, and chronicled, the Black Catholic Studies Reader is a valuable resource and is a welcomed addition to the emerging lexicon on Black Catholicism."—Maurice J. Nutt, CSsR, American Catholic Studies (ACHS)

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