The Healing Power Of African American Spirituality

Author : Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781612834672

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The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality by Stephanie Rose Bird Pdf

The essential resource and guide to African American spirituality and traditions. This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions. Inside you will find: 1. A celebration of healing, magic, and the divination traditions of ancient African earth-based spirituality 2. An explanation of how these practices have evolved in contemporary African American culture 3. A potpourri of recipes, rituals, and resources that you can use to heal your life Among the topics covered: African spiritual practices of Santeria, Obeah, Lucumi, Orisa, and Quimbois Hoodoo—and how to use it to improve your health Ancient healing rituals and magical recipes of Daliluw Talking drums, spiritual dancing, clapping, tapping, singing, and changing Power objects, tricks and mojo bags, and herbal remedies Previously published as The Big Book of Soul.

Author : Phyllis Baker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595442317

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African-American Spirituality, Thought & Culture by Phyllis Baker Pdf

Traces the author's and African Americans in general, historical roots and personal and professional understanding of her culture.

Author : Akasha Gloria Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594775215

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Soul Talk by Akasha Gloria Hull Pdf

• A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity. • Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores Kendrick, Sonia Sanchez, Michele Gibbs, Geraldine McIntosh, Masani Alexis DeVeaux and Namonyah Soipan. • By a widely published scholar, poet, and activist who has been interviewed by the press, television, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered From the last part of the twentieth century through today, African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force, fashioning a uniquely African-American way to connect with the divine. In Soul Talk, Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice. Through fascinating and heartfelt conversations with some of today's most creative and powerful women--women whose spirituality encompasses, among others, traditional Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Native American teachings, meditation, the I Ching, and African-derived ancestral reverence--the author explores how this new spiritual consciousness is manifested, how it affects the women who practice it, and how its effects can be carried to others. Using a unique and readable blend of interviews, storytelling, literary critique, and practical suggestions of ways readers can incorporate similar renewal into their daily lives, Soul Talk shows how personal and social change are possible through reconnection with the spirit.

Author : Caroline Shola Arewa
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000046088906

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Opening to Spirit by Caroline Shola Arewa Pdf

A gifted spiritual guide and a yoga master illustrates the common root of many of our spiritual traditions through the mythology and spirituality of Ancient Egypt, Early India and West Africa. 8 color plates. 40 line drawings.

Author : Yvonne P. Chireau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520249882

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Black Magic by Yvonne P. Chireau Pdf

"Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African American religious culture. Expanding beyond the usual focus of scholarship on Christianity, she describes and analyzes the world of magical-medical-religious practice, challenging hallowed distinctions among "religion" and "magic." Anyone interested in African American religion will need to reckon seriously with Chireau's text on conjure."—Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University "Deprived of their own traditions and defined as chattel, enslaved Africans formed a new orientation in America. Conjuring—operating alongside of and within both the remnants of African culture and the acquired traditions of North America—served as a theoretical and practical mode of deciphering and divining within this, enabling them to create an alternate meaning of life in the New World. Chireau's is the first full-scale treatment of this important dimension of African American culture and religion. A wonderful book!"—Charles H. Long, Professor of History of Religions University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion

Author : Gloria T. Hull,Akasha Gloria Hull
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 089281943X

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Soul Talk by Gloria T. Hull,Akasha Gloria Hull Pdf

In the last few decades African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force, fashioning a unique way to connect with the divine. In "Soul Talk", Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice.

Author : Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0829815597

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African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness by Stephanie Y. Mitchem Pdf

Exploring African-American womens religious practices and spirituality from the perspective of healing, Mitchem offers a bird's eye view into the historical issues related to the subject.

Author : Diana L. Hayes
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331109

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Forged in the Fiery Furnace by Diana L. Hayes Pdf

African American spirituality was forged in the fiery furnace of slavery, segregation, and ongoing racial discrimination in both church and society. But African Americans are a people who are strengthened rather than weakened by their experience. This volume traces how African Americans have articulated their faith and love of God in language, song, and daily living. Beginning with its spiritual roots in Africa, Hayes shows how African American spirituality encompassed and incorporated the experience of slavery and the encounter with Christianity. Remarkably, African American slaves were able to find in the religion of their oppressors a message of hope, affirmation, and resistance. Through stories, song, distinctive forms of prayer, celebration, and prophetic witness, Hayes shows how the spirituality of African Americans has nurtured their survival as well as promoting action on behalf of the community and the greater society.

Author : J. Harold Ellens
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Psychology and religion
ISBN : PSU:000067600021

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The Healing Power of Spirituality: Religion by J. Harold Ellens Pdf

Author : Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0865436630

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Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness by Carlyle Fielding Stewart Pdf

The central idea behind this book is that black American spirituality has the power to accentuate, inform and strengthen black life. As a result of the gains made in pursuit of their emancipation, black Americans have developed a spiritual gift of resourcefulness that compels them to confront and transform the forces of evil and oppression that have instigated their demise. Hence the creation of a culture of spirituality and a spirituality of culture through creative and resistant soul force.

Author : Alita Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0664223575

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On the Other Side by Alita Anderson Pdf

"On the Other Side" is a collection of oral narratives and the author's original artwork that presents the stories of a diverse group of people who all have one thing in common: a profound experience with the power of healing. Each individual's account is woven together with verses from African-American spirituals that punctuate the story, and with Anderson's testimony of her own spiritual transformation, which took place as she collected these individual accounts.

Author : Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781612831374

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The Big Book of Soul by Stephanie Rose Bird Pdf

Soul is the ultimate expression and experience of African-American culture. The Big Book of Soul is the first popular reference book to provide an in-depth examination of the source of soul in African culture and how soul finds its expression today. Author Stephanie Rose Bird takes readers on a breathtaking journey of soul by examining the spirit of animism and how it evolved in contemporary African-American culture. She explores spiritual practices related to diet, dance, beauty, healing, and the arts, and provides readers with ancient healing rituals and practices they can use today. Filled with fun facts, practical advice, and ancient spiritual wisdom, The Big Book of Soul is for any reader who wants a genuine, rooted experience of soul today.

Author : Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Rhonda Wells-Wilbon,Cheryl Davenport Dozier
Publisher : Pearly Gates Publishing LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948853639

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The Healing Power of the Circle by Rhonda Wells-Wilbon,Cheryl Davenport Dozier Pdf

On the back cover of the 1st Edition of The Healing Power of the Circle, my friends and colleagues, Dr. Tricia Bent-Goodley and Dr. Jerome Schiele, applauded this collection of spiritual awakenings. Schiele suggested, "This book represents the creative ways African Americans have used spirituality to resist and transcend the unnatural grip of Eurocentric domination. This book is a must-read for those who seek spiritual healing in a spiritually alienated and racially oppressive society." Bent-Goodley hailed this book as "a refreshing collection of spiritual awakenings that touch your heart and kindle the soul. Be prepared to sit and contemplate the words of giants such as Dr. Morris F.X. Jeff, Jr., and hear the words of those coming behind him, knowing for certain that the circle is not broken." Now-15 years later-WOW! We've come over some hills and mountains and such a long way! We've gained many new ancestors and celebrated some victories, but the battle is not over. The attacks against our humanity persist. My love for the ancestors and elders who loved and love NABSW is the reason I return when asked to do things I know are important. Mama Marimba Ani teaches us, "We have to be patient with each other." This is no easy task when we are faced with so many challenges both inside and outside the circle. But, if our ancestors-who survived the Middle Passage, enslavement, Jim Crow, and a host of insults and indignities for hundreds of years so that we might know what it is for the circle to be forever-who am I to not...who are we to not lean into our faith, trust in the power of God Almighty, and continue the assignment of shining a light on "The Healing Power of the Circle"? Dr. Rhonda Wells-Wilbon Professor, Morgan State University Co-Editor, Social Work Practice with African Americans in Urban Environments and Trauma and Mental Health Social Work with Urban Populations: African-Centered Clinical Interventions

Author : Paul Abernathy
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955890064

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The Prayer of a Broken Heart by Paul Abernathy Pdf

What do African American spirituality and Orthodox Christianity have in common? More than you might think. Drawing on both his own background as a biracial convert to Orthodoxy and historical resources that span St. Athanasius to Frederick Douglass, Fr. Paul Abernathy details the many intersections between these two traditions, including a redemptive understanding of the Cross and a faith shaped by suffering and persecution. In so doing, he points to a new path whereby Orthodox Christianity can uniquely answer the spiritual needs of African Americans.