Religion
Religion
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.
$10.95
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...
$56.00
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...
$75.00
Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
$124.99
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...
$124.99
Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
$124.99
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...
$124.99
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...
$127.00
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...
$123.50
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...
$49.99
Must God Remain Greek?: Afro Cultures and God-Talk
PrefaceIntroductionPART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS African Indigenous ChurchesThe Church of the Lord (Aladura)The Cherubim and Seraphim ChurchThe Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)Zionist Churches in South AfricaChurch of Christ in Africa (Kenya)Ingigenous Elements of Worship Caribbean Indigenous Religions...
$34.99
Los Animales En El Folklore Y La Magia de Cuba (Coleccion Del Chichereku) (Spanish Edition)
En forma de de diccionario con significado de los animales en la religión afrocubana y el folklore.
In dictionary form, the meanings of animals in Afro-Cuban religions and folklore are examined.
$24.95
The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
$63.99
The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more...
$63.99
Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World
Going beyond inter-ethnic polemics, this book describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Jonathan Schorsch uses many previously unexamined sources to reveal the scope of Jewish...
$172.99
Is It Time Yet?: An Advent Journey Coloring Book
Children are naturally anticipatory and always seem to be looking forward to the next big event. So, why not capitalize on the refrain of is it time yet and use it to point children to Christ.
$9.50
Introducing African American Religion (World Religions)
This book offers a creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion. Tracing what it has meant to be African American and religious within the context of the United States, it provides a vital snapshot of some...
$212.50
Introducing African American Religion
This book offers a creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion. Tracing what it has meant to be African American and religious within the context of the United States, it provides a vital snapshot of some...
$77.99
The Holy Piby: The Blackman's Bible
Born in Anguilla, ROBERT ATHLYI ROGERS (d. 1931) spent a significant part of his youth traveling throughout Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States, preaching an Afrocentric gospel. Passionately and spiritually committed to the chosen status of...
$16.00
Health, Wealth, and Power in an African Diaspora Church in Canada
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility...
$84.00
God of the Rahtid
How can we make sense of the complex phenomenon of Black rage and use it in a positive way so that it becomes a constructive way in our lives?
$42.00
A Lynched Black Wall Street: A Womanist Perspective on Terrorism, Religion, and Black Resilience in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
This book remembers one hundred years since Black Wall Street and it reflects on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street was the most successful Black business district in the United States; yet, it was isolated from the blooming...
$18.00
A Lynched Black Wall Street: A Womanist Perspective on Terrorism, Religion, and Black Resilience in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
This book remembers one hundred years since Black Wall Street and it reflects on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street was the most successful Black business district in the United States; yet, it was isolated from the blooming...
$29.00
While In God's Waiting Room
Apostle Ephantus Itegi was born and raised in the family of Mr. and Mrs. itegi Munyori, in Nyahururu, Nyandarua County in Kenya. He was educated in Kenya and later became a public prosecutor. After years of service to several communities...
$15.00
Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing...
$162.00
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions (Religion and Society)
This important new reference covers African and African-American religion in sub-Saharan Africa, North America, South America, and the Caribbean, and provides vital insights into its growing worldwide influence in Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Entries encompass individuals, concepts, specific...
$107.98
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas: Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide
A Critical Introduction to Religion inthe Americas arguesthat we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding itsmarginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religiousstudies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberationtheology, is still useful, but it...
$102.00
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas: Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide
A Critical Introduction to Religion inthe Americas arguesthat we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding itsmarginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religiousstudies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberationtheology, is still useful, but it...
$34.00
Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach: An Analysis of Akan, Para-Creole, and IFO-Sananda Rites and Prayers
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics,...
$177.00
Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
2016 Reprint of 1887 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. As a writer, Blyden is regarded widely as the "Father of Pan-Africanism". His major work, "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race" (1887), promoted...
$15.99
Can a Cushite Change His Skin?: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Othering in the Hebrew Bible
$77.00
Can a Cushite Change His Skin?: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Othering in the Hebrew Bible
How did the authors of the Hebrew Bible perceive the Cushites? Sadler demonstrates that the answer to this question provides insights into the way differences that modern scholars would classify as racial" were understood in ancient Israel/Judah. By examining explicit...
$77.00