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At a time when ideas like "post-racial society" and "#BlackLivesMatter" occupy the same space, scholars of black American faith are provided a unique opportunity to regenerate and imagine theological frameworks that confront the epistemic effects of racialization and its confluence with the theological imagination. Decolonizing Revelation contributes to this task by rethinking or "taking a second look" at the cultural production of the blues. Unlike other examinations of the blues that privilege the hermeneutic of race, this work situates the blues spatially, offering a transracial interpretation that looks to establish an option for disentangling racial ideology from the theological imagination. This book dislocates race in particular, and modernity in general, as the primary means by which God's self-disclosure is read across human history. Rather than looking to the experience of antiblack racism as revelational, the work looks to a people group, blues people, and their spatial, sonic, and sensual activities. Following the basic theological premise that God is a God of life, Burnett looks to the spaces where blues life occurs to construct a decolonial option for a theology of revelation.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Towards a Spatial Reading of the Blues and Revelation: Doing Theology in light of the Colonial Difference
Chapter 2: Entanglements of Spatial Imagination in the Delta Region: Recovering a Blues Option for Decolonizing Revelation
Chapter 3: The Blues Cosmovision and Decoloniality: Towards a Blues Perspective on Revelation and Knowledge
Chapter 4: Revelation and Knowledge in the Delta: A Blues Take on the Modern/Colonial World and its Theological Foundations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Rufus Burnett Jr. is professor, academic advisor, and affiliate of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Summary
This book dislocates race and modernity as the primary means by which God’s self-disclosure is read across human history. Following the basic theological premise that God is a God of life, this book looks to the spaces where blues life occurs to construct a decolonial option for a theology of revelation.
