African, African-American, and Process Theologies

Anyanwu, K. C. “A Response to A.G.A. Bello’s Methodological Preliminaries.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 14, no.1 (1991): 61-69. [African, Logic, Philosophy of Science]

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. "AfroAmerican Thoughts on God in Creation." Earth Letter (Spring 2007): 5-6. [African, Creation, God Concepts, Panentheism, Relationality]

_____. Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2006. [abstract]

_____. "Passing on the Spark: A Womanist Perspective on Theology and Culture." in Changing  Conversations: Religious Reflection and Cultural Analysis. ed. Dwight N. Hopkins and Sheila Greeve Davaney. New York: Routledge, 1996.145-62. [African, Spirituality, Womanist]

_____. Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. [abstract]

_____.  "Something or Nothing: An Eco-Womanist Essay on God, Creation and Indispensibility." in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Second Edition. ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. New York and London, Routledge, 2004, 428-37. [African, Womanist, Creation, Ecology]

_____. "A Womanist Journey." in Deeper Shades of Purple : Womanism in Religion and Society. ed. Stacy M. Floyd-Thomas. New York: New York University Press, 2006, 158-75. [African, Womanist, Spirituality]

_____ , and Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher. My Sister, My Brother: Womanist and Xodus God Talk. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1997. [abstract]

Beardslee, William A. “Cornel West’s Postmodern Theology.” In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 149-55.

_____. “Responses to Kunene’s ‘African Cosmology’.” (unpubl.)

Chinula, Don. “African Thought Conference.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 12, no.2 (Spring 1988): 1, 7.

Cobb, John B. Jr. “Response to Kunene’s Paper.” (unpubl.)

Coleman, Monica A. "Attention to the Ancestors: Black Theology, African Traditional Religions, and a Process Metaphysic." AAR Conference Paper - Black Theology and Process Theology - Philadelphia, 2005. [African, Metaphysics]

_____. "From Models of God to a Model of Gods: How Whiteheadian Metaphysics Facilitates Western Language Discussion of Divine Multiplicity." Philosophia 35 (2007): 329-340. [African, Metaphysics, Pluralism, God Concepts, Language]

_____. Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. [abstract]

_____. “Walking in the Whirlwind: A Whiteheadian-Womanist Soteriology.” PhD. Dissertation. Claremont Graduate University, 2004. (Available in pdf format only)

_____. "You Gotta Believe: The Future of Process Theology - In and Outside of the Academy." Midwest Division Meeting, American Theological Society held at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL (October 27, 2006) [African, Introduction to Process]

Cone, James H. Review of Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology of Liberation, by Schubert Ogden. Union Seminary Quarterly Review 35 (1979-80): 296-300. [African, Faith, Freedom]

Deminoff, William. “The Role of an Iowa Theologian in King’s Civil-Rights Work.” The Des Moines Register (October 13, 1987) [References to Wieman]

Fields, Cheryl and David R. Griffin. “Black Theology and Process.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 10, no.4 (Fall 1986): 1, 8-9.

Graves, Thomas H. “A Critique of Process Theodicy from an African Perspective.” Process Studies 17, no.2 (Summer 1988): 103-11. [African, Evil, Power]

Griffin, David Ray. “Black Process Theology.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 11, no.2 (Spring 1987): 9.

_____. “The Conversation with Cornel West.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 10, no.2 (Spring 1986): 2, 7-8.

_____. “Liberation Theology and Postmodern Philosophy: A Response to Cornel West.” In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 129-48.

Holmes, Barbara. "Exposing the Hustle, Reclaiming the Flow: Film and the Lure of Processive Liberation Theologies." AAR Conference Paper - Black Theology and Process Theology - Philadelphia, 2005.  [African, Cosmology, Liberation]

Howell, Nancy Rose. “Process Theodicy from an African Perspective.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 11:2 (Spring 1987): 9. [African, Evil]

Hulbert, Steve. "David Ongombe: Hartshorne and African Thought."  Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 29, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 13. 

Hutcherson, Matthew. “Is the Process God Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed?  An Answer to the Compatibility Question.” (unpubl.) [African, God Concepts, Liberation Theology]

Jones, William R. “Process Theology: Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed: An Interim Assessment.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 268-81. [African, Liberation Theology]

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.” Ph.D. Diss., Boston University, 1955. [African, God Concepts]

Kunene, Mazisi. “African Cosmology.” (unpubl.) [African, Cosmology]

_____. Anthem of the Decades. London: Heineman, 1981. [abstract]

_____. Emperor Shaka the Great. London: Heineman, 1979. [abstract]

McCloud, Aminah. Review of African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles, by Allan D. Austin and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, by Sylviane A. Diouf. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no. 4 (December 2000): 879-933. [African, Christianity, Islam]

McKenith, William. “Process Philosophy: A Possible Philosophical Undergirding for Black Theology.” The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review 113, no. 3 (2001): 25-36. [African, Liberation]

Miller, Randolph C. “Process Thought and Black Theology.” In Black Theology II, eds., Calvin E. Bruce and William R. Jones (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1978), 267-85.

Morrison, Roy D., II. “Critical Black Philosophy and International Theology: A Methodological Response to John Cobb.” (unpubl.) [African, Liberation Theology]

_____. “Process Philosophy, Social Thought, and Liberation Theology.” Zygon 19, no.1 (March 1984): 65-81.

Neve, Herbert. “Religion and Experimentation With African Socialism in Tanzania.” 1975 (unpubl.) [abstract] [African, Freedom]

Potter, Ronald C. “A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in Process and Black Theologies.” The Journal of the Interdenominational Center 12, nos.1-2 (Fall 1984-Spring 1985): 50-61.

Prozesky, Martin. “Well-Fed Animals and Starving Babies: Environmental and Developmental Challenges in Process and African Perspectives.” Concrescence 1 (June 2000) [paper available at http://www.alfred.north.whitehead.com/AJPT/ajpt_papers/vol01/01_prozesky_fr.htm] [African Thought, Ecology, Ethics]

Reeves, Gene. “Liberation in Process Theology and the Black Experience.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 9, no.4 (Fall 1985): 1-2, 9. [African, Liberation]

Smith, Archie, Jr. “Alien Gods in Black Experience.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 294-305. [Black Theology, Liberation Theology]

_____. “Black Liberation and Process Theologies.” Process Studies 16, no.3 (Fall 1987): 174-90. [Black Theology, Liberation Theology]

_____. The Relational Self:  Ethics and Therapy from a Black Church Perspective. Nashville, TN:  Abingdon, 1982. [abstract]

Smith, Edward L. “A Process Response to Akinsola Akiwowo’s Ajobi and Ajogbe: Variations on the Theme of Sociation.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 28, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Spring 2000-2001): 103-24.

Thandeka. "Future Designs for American Liberal Theology." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 30, no. 1 (January 2008): 72-100.

_____.“‘I’ve Known Rivers’: Black Theology’s Response to Process Theology.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 282-93. [Black Theology, Liberation Theology]

Vogel, Howard J. “Welfare Rights and the Constitutional Ethic of Justice Thurgood Marshall.” (unpubl.) [African-American, Justice, Law]

Walker, Theodore, Jr. “African-American Religion and Process Theology.” [Video cassette]

_____. “African-American Resources for a More Inclusive Liberation Theology.” In Good News for Animals?  Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being, eds. Charles Pinches and Jay B. McDaniel. (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993), 163-71. [African-American, Ecology, Liberation]

_____. “Black Religion and Black Radicalism: Theology and Liberation.” (unpubl.) [Black Theology, Liberation]

_____. "Can a Million Black Men Be Good News?: A Great Cloud of Witnesses to the Affirmative." (Chapter 1 in a book.) [African-American Thought, Womanist Theology]

_____. Empower the People: Social Ethics for the African-American Church. Mary Knoll: Orbis, 1991. [abstract]

_____. “Hartshorne’s Neoclassical Theism and Black Theology.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 240-58.

_____. “Hartshorne’s Neoclassical Theism from the Perspective of Black Theology.” In Charles Hartshorne’s Concept of God, ed. Santiago Sia (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), 1-22.

_____. Mothership Connections: A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. [abstract]

_____. “Theological Resources for a Black Neoclassical Social Ethics.” Journal of Religious Thought 45, no.2 (Winter-Spring 1989): 21-39. Reprinted in Black Theology: A Documentary History. Vol. II. 1980-1992, eds. James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore (New York: Orbis Books, 1993), 35-52. [Black Theology, Ethics]

West, Cornel. “The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion.” In Knowing Religiously, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985), 36-51.

_____. Review of God Within Process, by Eulalio R. Baltazar. Religious Studies Review 5, no.1 (January 1979): 69.

The Women’s Movement for Justice and Peace. “The Cry of Zairian Women: We Want Peace!”  November 7, 1996.

Young, Henry James. “Black Theology and the Work of William R. Jones.” Religion in Life 44 (Spring 1975): 14-28. [Black Theology, Freedom]

_____. “Black Theology: Providence and Evil.” Duke Divinity School Review 40, no.2 (1975): 87-96. [Black Theology, Evil, Freedom, Power]

_____. “God and Convergence: A Teilhardian Perspective.” (unpubl.) [Black Theology, God Concepts, Teilhard]

_____. “God and the World: A Process Perspective.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 11, no.2 (Spring, 1975): 114-24. [Black Theology, God Concepts, God-World]

_____.  Hope in Process: A Theology of Social Pluralism. Minneapolis: Fortess Press, 1990. [abstract]

_____. “Points of Convergence Between Afro-American Religion and Process Theology.” [Video cassette]

_____. “Process Theology and Black Liberation: Testing the Metaphysical Foundations.” Process Studies 18, no.4 (Winter 1989): 259-67. [Black Theology, Liberation Theology, Metaphysics]

_____. “The Power of God and Marginal Existence.” (unpubl.) [Black Theology, God Concepts, Justice, Power]

_____. “The Reality of God and Human Oppression.” (unpubl.) [Black Theology, God Concepts]