Frames colonial theology in the Caribbean as a form of witchcraft practice that bewitched Africans and later black colonial subjects, and discusses the continued impact of this bewitchment, namely in politics and anti-intellectualism in contemporary Black Pentecostal Church life, especially in the UK.
Über den Autor
Robert Beckford is Reader in Theology and Society at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and is the author of a number of books in the field of religion, popular culture and politics, including God of the Rahtid (2003) and Jesus Dub (2006). He has presented numerous documentaries in the UK for the BBC and Channel 4 and gained a BAFTA in 2001 for diversity in educational broadcasting.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1. A New Position in Black Christian Representation: Beyond Confinement, Misrecognition and the Ubiquitous black choir 2. Emancipatory Framework: Set On, Cast Out 3. Witchcraft 4. Exorcism: Jesus the Healer 5. Christian Complicity with the Bewitchment of Empire 6. Memory Cannibalism as the a Continued Influence of Colonial Christianity 7. Zombie Worship 8. Signs and Wonders: Translating the Emancipatory Framework 9. Documentary Film: Poetic Justice 10. Encoding Bewitchment in Documentary 11. The Prophetic and the Political Documentary 12. Hermeneutic of Suspicion Academic Theological Practice and the Bible Documentary Conclusion: Towards an Exorcism Aesthetic Bibliography Index
Klappentext
Frames colonial theology in the Caribbean as a form of witchcraft practice that bewitched Africans and later black colonial subjects, and discusses the continued impact of this bewitchment, namely in politics and anti-intellectualism in contemporary Black Pentecostal Church life, especially in the UK.
The documentary maker reflects on his art, and how he navigates between theology and visual culture as an academic, activist and practitioner.
