The African diaspora and the study of religion / Theodore Louis Trost
- 作者: Trost, Theodore Louis 1954-
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- 出版: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2008
- 叢書名: Religion/culture/critique
- 主題: African diaspora , Blacks--Religion , Black theology
- ISBN: 9780230609938 、 0230609937
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- 書目註:The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion engages a variety of conversations at the forefront of contemporary scholarship in the studyof religion and in African diaspora studies. These conversations include: the construction of racial identity in diverse national settings (Brazil, Mexico, Britain, North America); new religious movements and nationalism; alternative religious narrativesin the diaspora; literature read through the lens of diaspora; trans-Atlantic culture (the role of Denmark in Nella Larson's novel Quicksand, for example, or Ethiopia in Rastafarianism); and the roleof the scholar and scholarship in the construction of religious and political meaning
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- 系統號: 005170461 | 機讀編目格式
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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: Sexualityand Afro-Caribbean Religious Expression in Nella Larsen'sQuicksand--Merinda Simmons * Candomb矇l, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's Paradise--Maha Marouan * PART III: DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA * Understanding Diaspora Culture: African ReligiousHeritage in the Caribbean--Katherine A. Smith * The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism andRepresentations of the State--Angela N. Cast簽aeda * 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 Traditionof 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