Research Catalog

Title

Black Theology Project records, 1935-1989.

Author

Black Theology Project.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Dodson, Howard.
• Dodson, Jualynne E.
• Delk, Yvonne V.

Description

6 lin. ft.

Summary

The records include files of the Board of Directors, 1980-84 (lists of board members, agendas, minutes, memoranda); administrative files, such as correspondence, membership materials, and financial records, of former executive directors, Howard Dodson, Jualynne Dodson, and Yvonne Delk; program files for the Convocation, Cuban Seminar on Black Theology, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Seminar, additional projects with Cuban ecumenical organizations, and other conferences and workshops; materials concerning BTP's collaboration with TIA; and subject files (mostly printed matter) on topics such as Black theology and Cuba, individuals, and organizations (mostly other churches and religious organizations).

Subjects

• Black people > Religion
• Liberty > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Black theology
• Theology in the Americas (Organization)
• Liberation theology
• African Americans > Religion
• Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Black Theology Project
• Cuba > Religion

Note

• Audiotapes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division. Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

• Black Theology Project

Biography (note)

• The Black Theology Project (BTP) is an interdenominational organization founded in 1976 under the leadership of Rev. Charles Spivey, Sister Shawn Copeland, and Rev. Muhammad Kenyatta.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloged
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc MG 286

OCLC

NYPW87-A622

Author

Black Theology Project.

Title

Black Theology Project records, 1935-1989.

Biography

The Black Theology Project (BTP) is an interdenominational organization founded in 1976 under the leadership of Rev. Charles Spivey, Sister Shawn Copeland, and Rev. Muhammad Kenyatta. BTP incorporates Black academicians, theologians, clergy and laity, and political and community activists in a national network committed to theological reflection and social action on behalf of the Black church and the Black community. The organization has established theological dialogues with Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific/Asian Christians in the United States and with Third World Christians and liberation movements outside of the United States, especially in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

The Black Theology Project was originally organized as one of eight projects of Theology in the Americas (TIA), a consortium program related to the National Council of Churches. BTP engages in theological dialogue and conferences with related TIA projects regarding a theology of liberation for North America.

Among its activities BTP has held several conferences, including "Black Church and Black Community: Unity and Action for Education" (Atlanta, 1977), a 1979 conference focusing on the relation of class and feminist analysis to Black Theology, and "National and International Priorities of the Black Church" (Washington, D. C., 1984).

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Added Author

Dodson, Howard.

Dodson, Jualynne E.

Delk, Yvonne V.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 286