ISBN:
1138205842
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9781138205840
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 201 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in religion 58
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in religion
DDC:
200.89/96
Keywords:
Africans Religion
;
Christianity African influences
;
Religions African influences
;
Christianity
;
Religion and politics
;
Africans Religion
;
Christianity African influences
;
Religions African influences
;
Christianity Africa
;
Religion and politics
;
Africans
;
Christianity
;
Religions
;
Christianity
;
Religion and politics
;
Blacks
;
Blacks Religion
;
Blacks Religion
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Religion
;
Religiosität
;
Spiritualität
;
Afrikaner
;
Schwarze
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Kulturelle Identität
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher's summary
Note:
"Birthed in Ghana during a roundtable style dialogue between scholars from around the world, this third TRRR [Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race] volume focuses on the religions and spirituality of African descendants."--Chapter 1
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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"Birthed in Ghana during a roundtable style dialogue between scholars from around the world, this third TRRR [Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race] volume focuses on the religions and spirituality of African descendants."--Chapter 1. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: mapping religious expressions and spirituality of African descendant communities
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Section 1: Religious expressions, traditions and identities. ; Church women's legacy of power : case of U.S. African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Blacksmith's razor and the vulture's head : African spirituality and the emancipation of Africa
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A tale of two worlds : an early nineteenth century encounter between the Akan and the Danes and the rise of Protestantism in West Africa
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The resurgence of the Presbyterian and Anglican missions in Calabar
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Pain and the black garment : pastoral responses to African widowhood
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An act of theological negritude : Kwame Bediako on African Christian identity
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Section 2: Arts, aesthetics and culture. ; From Selma to Ferguson : embodied performance, social change and political organizing within the United States
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Sounds of blackness? : struggles for freedom in 21st century congregational songs in South London
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The Cornel West theory : prophetic criticism and the cultural production of hip hop
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Politically freed yet mentally enslaved! : reflecting on Psalm 8 by way of Steve Biko's notion of black beauty
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Rape, rage and culture : African men's indigenous knowledge and resolutions to the rape crisis
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Responding to black youth invisibility : the black church nurturing the artist within
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Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and the educational empowerment of Muslim women
URL:
https://www.routledge.com/Religion-Culture-and-Spirituality-in-Africa-and-the-African-Diaspora/Ackah-Dodson-Smith/p/book/9781138205840
URL:
https://www.routledge.com/Religion-Culture-and-Spirituality-in-Africa-and-the-African-Diaspora/Ackah-Dodson-Smith/p/book/9781138205840
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