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Teaching Black Theology: Event Report
Rebecca O'Loughlin
In January 2009, the Subject Centre held a conference entitled ‘Teaching
Black Theology’ in Birmingham, to provide an opportunity for representatives
from academic, community and religious organisations and institutions to discuss
issues around the teaching of Black and Womanist theology at under- and postgraduate
levels in the UK.
The event was a great success and received excellent feedback from delegates.
The papers were of a consistently high standard and covered a range of topics,
opening up lively and informative discussion on the nature of Black theology
itself, and on appropriate pedagogies for Black theology. Participants discussed
the use of different media for teaching Black theology, including storytelling,
film and audio, particularly gospel music. The translation of the Bible was
also a recurrent theme of the discussions. Speakers and delegates provided
real life examples of their experiences as teachers of Black theology, with
many describing their use of particular teaching tools and classroom exercises.
Enthusiasm for the event, and for the topic of Teaching Black Theology, was
such that the Subject Centre plans to establish a Special Interest Group on
Teaching Black Theology and to publish papers from the event.
Delegates made the following comments:
‘Thank you so much to you and your collegues at the Subject Centre for
setting up and facilitating such a marvellous event. The papers and delivery
were enlightening and enjoyable.’
‘An extremely valuable event that provided a much-needed forum within
which to discuss the teaching of Black theology.'
'This event was friendly, inspiring, informative and stimulating.'
‘I just found this event so energising.’
‘Good range of speakers.’
This page was originally on the website of The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies. It was transfered here following the closure of the Subject Centre at the end of 2011.
