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Black Theology
An International Journal
Volume 19, 2021 - Issue 3: Afrofuturism, Afro-pessimism and Black Religious Thought: Conceptualizing Ideologies of Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century
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Beyond a “Political Priest”: Exploring Desmond Tutu as a “Freedom-Fighter Mystic”

Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor, by Michael Battle, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021, 388 pp., $50, ISBN 978-0-6642-6727-8

Sarojini NadarUniversity of the Western CapeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 268-275 | Published online: 10 Nov 2021

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  • Battle, Michael. “The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu: How Desmond Tutu’s Theological Model of Community Facilitates Reconciliation among Races in a System of Apartheid.” PhD diss., Duke University, 1995.
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  • Rakoczy, Susan. “What Does Mysticism Have to Do with Social Justice?” Scriptura: Journal for Contextual Hermeneutics in Southern Africa 112, no. 1 (2013): 1–16.
  • Tutu, Desmond. “Afterword.” In Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor, ed. Michael Battle. Westminster John Knox Press, 2021: 315–318.

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