African American Religious Studies

Author : Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015040127071

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African American Religious Studies by Gayraud S. Wilmore Pdf

Gayraud S. Wilmore is Professor of Church History and Afro-American Religious Studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published numerous articles and booksl including Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, David Shannon, co-ed.; Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope; and Last Things First. Professor Wilmore is the recpicient of the Bruce Klunder Award of the Presbyterian Interracial Councils (1969), the Sward of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Harlem (1971), and various honorary degrees.

Author : Cornel West,Eddie S. Glaude
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224598

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African American Religious Thought by Cornel West,Eddie S. Glaude Pdf

Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.

Author : Julius H. Bailey
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506408040

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Down in the Valley by Julius H. Bailey Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Joseph Taylor,Linda M. Chatters,Jeffrey S. Levin,Jeff Levin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761917090

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Religion in the Lives of African Americans by Robert Joseph Taylor,Linda M. Chatters,Jeffrey S. Levin,Jeff Levin Pdf

Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives examines many broad issues including the structure and sociodemographic patterns of religious involvement; the relationship between religion and physical and mental health and well-being; the impact of church support and the use of ministers for personal issues; and the role of religion within specific subgroups of the African American population such as women and the elderly. Authors Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, and Jeff Levin reflect upon current empirical research and derive conclusions from several wide-ranging national surveys, as well as a focus group study of religion and coping. Recommended for students taking courses in racial and ethnic studies, multicultural and minority studies, black studies, religious studies, psychology, sociology, human development and family studies, gerontology, social work, public health, and nursing.

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576075128

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African American Religious Cultures [2 volumes] by Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive presentation available on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, from traditions predating the era of the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary religious movements. Like no previous reference, African American Religious Cultures captures the full scope of African American religious identity, tracing the long history of African American engagement with spiritual practice while exploring the origins and complexities of current religious traditions. This breakthrough encyclopedia offers alphabetically organized entries on every major spiritual belief system as it has evolved among African American communities, covering its beginnings, development, major doctrinal points, rituals, important figures, and defining moments. In addition, the work illustrates how the social and economic realities of life for African Americans have shaped beliefs across the spectrum of religious cultures.

Author : Carolyn M. Jones,Theodore Louis Trost
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198037507

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Teaching African American Religions by Carolyn M. Jones,Theodore Louis Trost Pdf

The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion one of the most difficult topics in religious studies to teach to undergraduates. The sheer scope of the material to be covered is daunting to instructors, many of whom are not experts in African American religious traditions, but are called upon to include material on African American religion in courses on American Religious History or the History of Christianity. Also, the unfamiliarity of the subject matter to the vast majority of students makes it difficult to achieve any depth in the brief time allotted in the survey courses where it is usually first encountered. The essays in this volume will supply functional, innovative ways to teach African American religious traditions in a variety of settings.

Author : Sylvester A. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521198530

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African American Religions, 1500–2000 by Sylvester A. Johnson Pdf

A rich account of the long history of Black religion from the dawn of Western colonialism to the rise of the national security paradigm.

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506403366

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Varieties of African American Religious Experience by Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews, Pinn‘s work provides a fascinating look especially at Voodoo, Santeria, the Nation of Islam, and black humanism in the United States and uses the diversity of religious belief to begin formulation of a comparative black theology-the first of its kind. This twentieth-anniversary edition is an expanded version, including a new preface and a new concluding chapter. An important contribution to classroom studies!

Author : Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195182897

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African American Religion by Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.) Pdf

"African American Religion offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it singles out the distinctive waysreligion has been leveraged by African Americans to respond to different racial regimes in the United States. That bold claim frames how he reads the historical record. Slavery, Jim Crow, and current appeals to color blindness serve as a backdrop for histreatment of conjure, African American Christianity and Islam"--

Author : D. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403980342

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Loving the Body by D. Hopkins Pdf

In this book, contributors argue that the Black Church must begin to address the significance of sexuality if it is to actually present liberation as a mode of existence that fully appreciates the body. The contributors argue that we not only have to look at the Black Church in this discussion, but also explore black Christianity in general.

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324490

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African American Religious History by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

This is a 2nd edition of the 1985 anthology that examines the religious history of African Americans.

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0822305941

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Afro-American Religious History by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

This unique collection of more than fifty documents many of them rare, out print, not easily accessible-covers Afro-American religious history from Africa into early America.

Author : Katie G. Cannon,Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199381081

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The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology by Katie G. Cannon,Anthony B. Pinn Pdf

Named an Honor Book for Nonfiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association African American theology has a long and important history. With modern roots in the civil rights movements of the 1960s, African American theology has gone beyond issues of justice and social transformation to participate in broader dialogues of theological inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology brings together leading scholars in the field to offer a critical and comprehensive analysis of this theological tradition in its many forms and contexts. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this Oxford Handbook examines the nature, structures, and functions of African American Theology. The volume surveys the field by highlighting its sources, doctrines, internal debates, current challenges, and future prospects in order to present key topics related to the wider palette of Black Religion in a sustained scholarly format. This formative collection presents current scholarship on African American Theology and scripture, eschatology, Christology, womanist theology, sexuality, ontology, the global economy, and much more. The contributors represent a diverse set of faith perspectives, adding to the layered discourses within the volume. These essays further important discussions on the pressing debates and challenges that shape black and womanist theologies.

Author : Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:28237323

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African American Religious Studies by Gayraud S. Wilmore Pdf

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV,Danielle Brune Sigler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253004086

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The New Black Gods by Edward E. Curtis IV,Danielle Brune Sigler Pdf

Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.