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This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
List of contents
Introduction: Alexander Crummell and the Belief in African Superiority - Wilson Jeremiah Moses * PART I: AFRICA IN DIASPORA * Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora - Afe Adogame * The Bible and the Quran among the Rastafari and the Nation of Islam - Maboula Soumahoro * Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African-American Islam in Boston 1948-1963 - Fatimah Fanusie * PART II: DIASPORA IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE * Robert Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian Kingdom of Culture, 1926-1932 - Regennia N. Williams * Slain in the Spirit: Sexuality and Afro-Caribbean Religious Expression in Nella Larsen's Quicksand - Merinda Simmons * Candomblé, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Maha Marouan * PART III: DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA * Understanding Diaspora Culture: African Religious Heritage in the Caribbean - Katherine A. Smith * The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism and Representations of the State - Angela N. Castañeda * Writing out Africa? Racial Politics and the Cuban regla de ocha - Christine Ayorinde * PART IV: DIASPORA IN THEORY * Macumba Has Invaded all Spheres: Africanity, Black Magic and the Study of Afro-Brazilian Religions - Kelly Hayes * Early American Pentecostalism: Race, Religion and the Politics of Anticipation - Matthew Waggoner * Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism - Jonathon Kahn * Conclusion: "'Africa' in the Study of African American Religion" - Eddie S. Glaude * Afterword: "'Religion' in the Study of the African Diaspora" - Russell T. McCutcheon
About the author
Theodore Louis Trost is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama.
Summary
This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
