Religion
Religion
The Untold Story: Revised Edition
THE UNTOLD STORY is a depiction of a chosen people who civilized the continents of Africa and Asia. These chosen people were Ethiopians. There are five central characters in this book: Enoch, Noah, Moses, Abraham and Jesus Christ. The Untold...
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This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865
This book addresses the claim that an American antebellum era anti-African reading of "the curse of Canaan" story originated in rabbinic literature. By tracing the curse of Canaan's history of interpretation from the beginning of the Common Era to 1865,...
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There All Along, Black Participation in the Church of the Nazarene, 1914- 1969
This book provides the history of black participation in the Church of the Nazarene from its very beginning.
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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. What can critical biblical studies learn from the African American experience with the Bible, and vice versa?This singular...
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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. What can critical biblical studies learn from the African American experience with the Bible, and vice versa? This...
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Spirits, Blood and Drums: The Orisha Religion in Trinidad
James Houk's field work in Trinidad and subsequent involvement in the Orisha religion allows him a uniquely intimate perspective on a complex and eclectic religion. Originating in Nigeria, Orisha combines elements of African religions (notably Yoruba), Catholicism, Hinduism, Protestantism Spiritual...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
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Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval's important 1627 missionary history, the only existing published document that deals with Africans in the Americas at such an early date, describes a means to salvation for Jesuits and Africans alike in the New World....
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Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil: 'The Black Does not Enter the Church, He Peeks in From Outside'
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Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil: 'The Black Does not Enter the Church, He Peeks in From Outside'
"I confess: Great is my shame and great is the bewilderment of Christ's Church in Brazil, upon seeing unbelievers release their slaves out of simple love for humanity, while those who profess faith in the Redeemer of captives fail to...
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Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World
" . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." ―African Arts " . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." ―Journal of Religion in Africa Yoruba texts and English translations...
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Secular, Scarred and Sacred
Secular, Scarred and Sacred: Education and Religion Among the Black Community in Nineteenth-Century Canada focuses on the paternal yet exclusionary role of Protestant Whites and their churches among refugee slaves and free Blacks in nineteenth-century Upper Canada―many of whom had migrated...
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Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian...
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Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean
Sacred Possessions is an unprecedented collection of thirteen comparative and interdisciplinary essays exploring the cross-cultural dynamics of African-based religious systems in the Caribbean. The contributors analyze the nature and liturgies of Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, Quimbois, and Gaga as they form one...
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Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity
This Book gives an overview and genealogy of Revivalism. It explores the role of the Revival Iconography in the building of a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and by extension African Jamaicans The Revival network was traced through a...
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Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black
Return to Glory Will Challenge Everything You Were Ever Taught About Human History Beginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs it's readers on...
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Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological AssociationFinalist, 2017 Albert...
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Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological AssociationFinalist, 2017 Albert...
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Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora (Religion and the Social Order, No. 18)
Across the past twenty years major change has taken place in the structure of global society with respect to the nature of migration. The predominant pattern since at least the eighteenth century had been for peoples to move to and...
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Religion and Resistance Politics in South Africa
This study focuses on Christianity and black nationalism in South Africa and looks at four individuals―Albert Lutuli, Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko, and Desmond Tutu―to see how each leader's Christian beliefs influenced the political strategy he pursued. Just as theology (Calvinism)...
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Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible (Biblical Refigurations)
Reimagining Hagar illustrates that while interpretations of Hagar as Black are not frequent within the entire history of her interpretation, such interpretations are part of strategies to emphasize elements of Hagar's story in order to associate or disassociate her from particular...
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Redemption of Africa and Black Religion
This monograph explains the role of religion in the colonies of Africa and among the people of African descent in the United States.
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Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church
Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications. This book explores the ways in which leaders and laity constructed historical narratives around varied locations...
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Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas
The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must instead examine the...
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with...
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with...
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Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
This major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship is based on extensive fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Pitts, a scholar of anthropology and linguistics and a church pianist, played at and recorded...
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New Trends and Developments in African Religions (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
African religions, as well as those religions that derive much of their cosmology, beliefs, and rituals from African religions, are becoming more international in scope and appeal. Yet they continue to be viewed either as indiscriminately adaptable or as static...
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Nago Grandma and White Papa: Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity (Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução)
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.Dantas compares the...
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