Meanings
- Black liberation theologyA white supremacist form of Christianity.
Is it an authentic liberation theology, or is it Christianity/Whiteanity—a religion of oppression, a species of the slave master’s Frankenstein mutation of biblical religion and Christianity that Carter G. Woodson labels mis-religion and Benjamin Mays, “compensatory beliefs”?
1998, William R. Jones, Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page ix2 more examples
To make life more human for the oppressed and to reclaim the humanity of the oppressed as well, the racism that is built into our most cherished institutions, including our churches, must be attacked and removed “root and branch.” Without this there can be “whiteanity,” but there can be no genuine Christianity.
1974, J. Deotis Roberts, A Black Political Theology, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, published 2005, →ISBN, →OL, page 68But the black church also operates out of a constructive cultural amnesia still clinging to remnants of the malignant forms of Christianity offered by slaveholders. This is not Christianity at all but may be what William R. Jones refers to as a creative and adaptive form of “whiteanity.”
2004 July, Barbara Ann Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Fortress Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 40
Origin
Blend of white + Christianity.
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