While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. Exploring the philosophy and practices of the Orisha traditions (principally the Afro-Cuban religious complex known as Santeria) as they have developed in the Americas, Clark suggests that, unlike many mainstream religions, these traditions exist within a female-normative system in which all practitioners are expected to take up female gender roles. Examining the practices of divination, initiation, possession...
While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change ...
Taking up the reading of a poignant passage of scriptures as analytical wedge, this work is an impressive study of the complexity of the history of African American identity formation and orientation to the world. Vincent L. Wimbush, author of The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History
Sound, theoretically sophisticated, and yields brilliant readings of the text, The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters will stand the test of time. Katherine Clay Bassard, author of Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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Taking up the reading of a poignant passage of scriptures as analytical wedge, this work is an impressive study of the complexity of the history o...
During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employment in urban centers. They transplanted not only themselves but also their culture; in the midst of this tumultuous demographic transition emerged a new social institution, the storefront sanctified church. Saved and Sanctified focuses on one such Philadelphia church that was started above a horse stable, was founded by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is still active today. "The Church," as it is...
During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employme...
