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  • Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism

    by Tracey E. Hucks ...
    Series series Religions of the Americas Series
    Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced religio-cultural projects in Harlem and later in the South. Adefunmi was part of a generation of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The African Diaspora

    Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

    by Professor Toyin Falola ...
    The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • African American Folk Healing

    by Stephanie Mitchem ...
    University professor Stephanie Y. Mitchem's African American Folk Healing is "an exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing."Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    by J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Witch Studies Reader

    Edited by Soma Chaudhuri, Jane Ward ...
    Stories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences—healing, sex, violence, tragedies, aging, death, and encountering the mystery and magic of the unknown. It is no surprise, then, that witches loom large in our cultural imaginations. In academia, studies of witches rarely emerge from scholars who are themselves witches and/or embedded in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deeper Shades of Purple

    Womanism in Religion and Society

    Edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    Series series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    A collection of leading voices on the study of Black women in religious lifeWomanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Ground Has Shifted

    The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

    by Walter Earl Fluker ...
    Series Book 6 - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    "An exuberant, thought-provoking assessment of the dilemmas facing black churches" examining their historic role in today's cultural landscape ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker discusses the historical and current role of the Black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homegrown

    Engaged Cultural Criticism

    by bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains ...
    In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spiritual Citizenship

    Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad

    by N. Fadeke Castor ...
    In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alternative Sociologies of Religion

    Through Non-Western Eyes

    by James V Spickard ...
    Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian oneSociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion that Christians find important, such as religious beliefs and formal organizations, while paying less ... Read more

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  • The Cooking of History

    How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Fault Lines

    The Sixties, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine

    by Gus diZerega ...
    The United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War—politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes. He traces the disruption, first, to America's first ... Read more

    $13.69 USD