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Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through PraxisHandsworth Revolutions\nAuthor(s): Robert Beckford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350081734, 978-1350081734\nSynopsis\nIs contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs?\n\nIn this book, Robert Beckford shows how the Black British contemporary gospel music tradition is in\ncrisis because its songs continue to be informed by colonial Christian ideas about God.\n\nBeckford explores the failure of both African and African Caribbean heritage Churches to Decolonise their faith, especially the doctrine of God, biblical interpretation and Black ontology. This predicament has left song leaders, musicians and songwriters with a reservoir of ideas that aim to disavow engagement with the social-historical world, black Biblical interpretation and the necessity of loving blackness.\n\nThis book .