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Major Book Review: “DeWayne R. Stallworth, Existential Togetherness: Toward a Common Black Religious Heritage”

When: June 10, 2021, 3:30 pm - Thursday

Where: Swang 238

Session 5

Session Abstract

In his important book, Existential Togetherness: Toward a Common Black Religious Heritage, Professor DeWayne Stallworth first explores the shared experience of slavery that connected African American people of widely diverse backgrounds, then turns his attention to the difficulties of maintaining such unity under the threat of white supremacy as experienced through the systematic structures of both white and black privilege.

Speakers

Richard Hughes, Lipscomb University, Convener

  • Raymond Carr, Harvard Divinity School, Reviewer
  • Gary Selby, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan University, Reviewer
  • David Holmes, Lipscomb University, Reviewer
  • DeWayne R. Stallworth, American Baptist College and Author, Respondent

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James Cone with conferee at the CSC in 2017

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Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson delivering the CSC plenary address

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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivering the CSC plenary address.

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US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith delivering the CSC plenary address

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David Brooks engaging conferees during breakfast at the CSC

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