Spirit(s) in Black Religion

Fire on the Inside

• Author(s): Kurt Buhring,
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Pages: 313
• ISBN_10: 3031098870
  ISBN_13: 9783031098871
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christian Theology / Liberation , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / African , Foreign Language Study / African Languages , Religion / Christian Theology / General , Religion / Christianity / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference ,

Description:... In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich resources within African and African-based religions to develop a more robust notion of the Holy Spirit for contemporary Black liberation theology. In so doing, Buhring offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action. The theology offered maintains the fundamental claim that God acts as liberator of the oppressed, while also calling for greater human responsibility and capability for bringing about liberation.