The Sam Sharpe Lecture 2024

 

The Sam Sharpe lectures seek to broaden and advance the legacy of Sam Sharpe by exploring subjects in mission, race, class, and injustice.

 

Thursday 24 October

The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education
Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2QH
 

This year's Sam Sharpe Lecture will be delivered by The Revd Dr Carlton Turner and the Lecture facilitator will be Dr Dulcie Dixon McKenzie.

'Fighting for Freedom, Fighting for Wholeness: Revolutionary Reactions to Colonial Christianity'

The infamous Sam Sharpe Rebellion in the social, cultural, political, and ecclesiastical context of 1830’s Jamaica is a significant example for anti-imperial and decolonial practices in postcolonial and post-slavery contexts. While being a significant moment in anti-slavery revolutionary reactions, what is often privileged in historical and theological accounts is the fight for freedom from plantation slavery and violence. What, however, is less developed, is another logic, that of wholeness. Revolutionary reactions and rebellions were equally about psychological wholeness and identity preservation as they were about physical wholeness and survival.

In this paper the Revd Dr Turner discusses the need to critically assess Sharpe’s Rebellion, and all other African Caribbean slave rebellions for that matter, in light of these two key foci. Decolonial efforts amidst the legacies of colonial Christianity must equally attend to outward, physical, observable change, as well as inner consciousness and psychological wholeness.


There are three ticket types available this year:

• Lecture with Meal - £10 per person (Meal at 18:00 at Queen's Foundation, followed by Lecture at 19:30 and drinks Reception at 21:00)

• Lecture only - £5 per person (Lecture at 19:30 and drinks Reception at 21:00)

• Online Lecture - Free (Joining instructions will be sent nearer the time to those who register to join the livestream)

 

	The Revd Dr Carlton Turner is
	Space at the Queen's Foundation is limited, so please complete the registration below to guarantee your place at the Lecture. Payment is by debit or credit card only and is non-refundable.
	This lecture is being sponsored by Baptist Insurance.