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Book Review: Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology

Book Review: Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology ATR/99.4 836 Anglican Theological Review And celebrate we must—not only this life full of jagged edges from so much cutting and pasting, but also the awe-inspiring collage of the great Creator. Poet Kathleen Hart helps us see both in her diverse and inspiring display of creators and created. Marjorie Maddox Lock Haven University Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology. By Emmanuel Y. Lartey. London: SCM Press, 2013. xxii + 138 pp. $56.00 (paper). Postcolonializing God is a quest for epistemological, imaginative, and pastoral practices of theology and spirituality that would “decolonize, diver- sify and promote counter-hegemonic social conditions” (p. xiii) to creatively transform culture and build communities of liberation and wholeness. Emmanuel Lartey begins with a critical analysis, arguing that the his- torical postcolony of institutionalized African churches, as well as their Eu- ropean and American diasporas, are still steeped in the internalized colonial discourses and imagery of God. Yet the historical African postcolony also yields creative trajectories of genuine decolonial spirituality and theology: counterhegemonic, strategic/dialogical, hybrid, interactional, dynamic, poly- vocal, and creative practices of imagination and devotion. The first chapter draws from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, par - ticularly the Tower of Babel narrative http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology

Suna-Koro, Kristine
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 99 (4): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/99.4 836 Anglican Theological Review And celebrate we must—not only this life full of jagged edges from so much cutting and pasting, but also the awe-inspiring collage of the great Creator. Poet Kathleen Hart helps us see both in her diverse and inspiring display of creators and created. Marjorie Maddox Lock Haven University Lock Haven, Pennsylvania Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology. By Emmanuel Y. Lartey. London: SCM Press, 2013. xxii + 138 pp. $56.00 (paper). Postcolonializing God is a quest for epistemological, imaginative, and pastoral practices of theology and spirituality that would “decolonize, diver- sify and promote counter-hegemonic social conditions” (p. xiii) to creatively transform culture and build communities of liberation and wholeness. Emmanuel Lartey begins with a critical analysis, arguing that the his- torical postcolony of institutionalized African churches, as well as their Eu- ropean and American diasporas, are still steeped in the internalized colonial discourses and imagery of God. Yet the historical African postcolony also yields creative trajectories of genuine decolonial spirituality and theology: counterhegemonic, strategic/dialogical, hybrid, interactional, dynamic, poly- vocal, and creative practices of imagination and devotion. The first chapter draws from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, par - ticularly the Tower of Babel narrative

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