Postcolonializing God - by Emmanuel y Lartey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Postcolonializing God examines how African Christianity can be truly a postcolonial reality and explores how people who were colonial subjects may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Postcolonializing God draws critically on postcolonial theory and practice in a constructive theological exercise. The title deliberately plays on human (constructing 'god, i. e. theology) and divine (the God that inspires and acts on postcolonializing activities) action in constructive interplay. <p/>Emmanuel Lartey argues for new ways of thinking about divine presence and action - and by implication new ways of pastoral and missional practice - inspired by postcolonial reality and critique. Drawing particularly on African and Asian postcolonial experience and thought, the work will be of interest to a wide audience especially in the areas of practical theology, constructive theology, Black theology, Third-World theologies and postmodern theologies.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>After centuries of Africa's involvement with Christianity, the twenty-first-century Western theological academy struggles to capture and theorize African spirituality as a dynamic and creative force in Christian and other religious cultures of African descendants worldwide. Emmanuel Lartey's Postcolonializing God changes the conversation by reconceptualizing the ritual sites and practices that constitute sacred experience across time and space in the Africana world. His intervention offers an accessible critique of unchecked colonial legacies still pervasive among far too many Christian communities in Africa and immigrant African diasporas. <br>Grounded in fresh readings of select biblical narratives, enslaved and contemporary African diasporic spirituality and ecclesiology, post-slavery reconciliation rituals among Africans and African diasporans and a transcultural African mysticism, Lartey's vision for practical theology pushes African practitioners, priests and professors alike to complete the project of postcolonializing God. By moving beyond mimicry and even improvisation toward the kind of creativity one witnesses today in the transatlantic healing ceremonies of the Joseph Project and the Ghanaian mystic Ishmael Tetteh's inclusively innovative Etherean Mission, Lartey maintains that Africans can build upon their exemplary spiritual heritages of synthesis and openness in religious formation and practice and thereby offer indispensible insight into human apprehension of the divine. <br>Rarely since James Cone's Black Theology and Black Power has the world of Africana theology seen such a poignant claim about the unexpected places where God's revelation is to be found today. In 1969 Cone contended that the Black Power movement in America was one such place. Today Emmanuel Lartey reinforces Cone's judgment, arguing that many of Africa's established churches lag behind 'secular' and wider indigenous spiritual movements in performing and expressing God's revelatory power and presence among all creation. <br>--Dianne M. Stewart Diakité<br><br>Lartey's passionate work pushes postcolonial theologians to search for ever richer answers and to such questions to enkindle a genuinely life-affirming theology. As such it will be useful and inspiring to scholars, teachers, students, and everyone who cares deeply and desires to learn more about transformative postcolonial pastoral theology not only in Africa or African diasporas, but also globally.--Kristine Suna-Koro "Anglican Theological Review"<br><br>In this book, Emmanuel Lartey has given us a practical theology rooted in African culture and spirituality, a theology that invites us to participate in the counter-hegemonic postcolonializing activity of God.<br>Lartey offers an approach to pastoral care that is not only individually healing but, as he puts it, community-building and culture-transforming.<br>His in-depth exploration of the ministry of contemporary Ghanaian mystic Brother Ishmael Tetteh provides a compelling lived example of his thesis.<br>This is an informative and inspiring resource for all concerned with human liberation and the creation of a more just and compassionate world.<br>--LIza Rankow<br>
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