Christianity as Anti-Colonial Resistance?: Womanist Theology, Black Liberation Theology, and The Black Church as Sites for Pedagogical Decolonization

Using post-colonial studies, this article considers the ways that Black Christian faith traditions enacted within The Black Church can be seen as a site of anti-colonial resistance. Further, the author argues that by framing the Christian religion (in all contexts) as fundamentally a tool of oppression, academicians are effectively missing the multiple and profound ways the Christian faith has been deployed for decolonizing and liberatory agendas, particularly in racialized spaces. In addition, these spaces that are rendered invisible not allowed and unrecognizablecan delegitimize the work and theorizing of religio-spiritual Black Christian scholars, serving as another method of raced marginalization.