The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion write by T. Trost. This book was released on 2007-12-25. The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Religion in the African Diaspora write by R. Marie Griffith. This book was released on 2006-09-22. Women and Religion in the African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora write by William Ackah. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.
Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora
Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora write by Carolyn M. Jones Medine. This book was released on 2015-10-14. Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down in the Valley write by Julius H. Bailey. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Down in the Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make sense of new contexts and conditions. This book explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. The book addresses contemporary controversies, including President Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and it will be valuable to all students of African American religions, African American studies, sociology of religion, American religious history, the Black Church, and black theology.
