Marla Frederick, Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion at Harvard University speaks on the history of religion and media.
There are various renditions of an adage that goes something like this: “When the West sneezes, Africa catches a cold.” This alludes to the fact that global system crises of any sort have an especially deleterious effect upon more precariously positioned members.
“The time is ripe for our church people and theologians to forge new, mutually beneficial relationships with brothers and sisters abroad,” writes Wilmore thirty years after “Black Theology” began coursing its way through black religious thought and practice, and five years after the 1994 democratic transition in South Africa signaled the end of white minority rule on the African continent.
After studying nearly 150 black megachurches, Tamelyn N. Tucker-Worgs asks, How are these church communities engaging the public sphere? And, why are their approaches so varied?