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Strangers at home: American ethnic modernism between the World Wars

Rita Keresztesi

About the Author Rita Keresztesi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. ...

Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism

Roger A. Sneed

Review “This important work by Sneed challenges theologies that ground themselves in Black experience—Black a...

Black religion and the imagination of matter in the Atlantic World

James A. Noel

Review “In Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World, Noel engages wide-ranging theoretic...

Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics

Melanie L. Harris

About the Author Melanie L. Harris is Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. A nationally-acclaimed speaker and...

Black Pilgrimage to Islam

Robert Dannin

From The term black Muslim generally conjures up images of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad. But the appeal of Is...

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

Yvonne P. Chireau

Review "Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African-American religious culture. Expanding b...

Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

Elizabeth Mcalister, Henry Goldschmidt

Review "The complex relationship between race, nationality, and religion is currently one of the most important topics in...

Goddess as Nature

About the Author Paul Reid-Bowen lectures at Bath Spa University, UK, teaching courses on Philosophy of Religion, Contemp...

Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913

Chanta M. Haywood

Review "After this I shall pour my spirit on all mankind: / your sons and your daughters will prophesy. . . . I shall pour ...

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible

Allen Dwight Callahan

From Publishers Weekly In this informative academic volume, Callahan (a New Testament professor at Brazil's Seminári...

Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Race

Don B. Griffin, Joel Freeman

Book Description This unique 4-CD audio book exposes racist distortions of African achievements, analyzes examples of Afr...

Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975

Edward E. Curtis Iv

Review "This text is a 'must-read' for those interested in religion in America, black studies, Islam in America, and the ...

Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe (Vitality of Indigenous Religious Series)

Tabona Shoko

About the Author Dr Tabona Shoko is Chairman of the Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the Unive...

Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 (Religion and American Culture) - 2nd edition

Edward J. Robinson

Review “This book provides an account of a distinctive black tradition and its relation to white churches that is n...

Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)

Marla F. Frederick

From the Inside Flap "A wonderful ethnographic study of the role of religion in a southern rural community. Through a co...

Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem

Zain Abdullah

Review "Brilliantly subtle.... does a masterful job humanizing these subjects and rendering their lives and thoughts in n...

Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)

Daphne Wiggins

Review “Wiggins captures voices normally taken for granted: the voices of African American female laity. Based on fie...

Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew

Dennis R. Macdonald

Review "Gracefully and graciously crafted....Will be of equal interest to scholars of the classics, ancient history, and ...

Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire

Shelly O'Foran

Review "Explores the power of oral narrative, through thoughtful fieldwork and presentation, to promote understanding bet...

White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity (Black Religion Womanist Thought Social Justice)

James W. Perkinson

Review "Perkinson does what no white theologian has done, namely offer a full-length treatment of white racism that is po...

Jesus DUB: Theology, Music And Social Change

Robert Beckford

About the Author Robert Beckford teaches at the University of Birmingham, in the department of American and Candian Studi...

Elijah Muhammad and Islam

Herbert Berg

Review "Herbert Berg argues persuasively that Elijah Muhammad, the leader and the Messenger of the Nation of Islam from 1...

No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Mary Bernard Deggs

Review "This intriguing book collects five biographies of women who became Mothers Superior in the early years of the devel...

God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America (Morality and Society Series)

Michael Leo Owens

Review “This exceptional book will be crucial for those of us who study black politics. In this era of strange all...

The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (Religion in North America)

Edward E. Curtis Iv, Danielle Brune Sigler

Review "... a fantastic new collection of essays on Arthur Huff Fauset and African American religious traditions." —...

Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora

Anthony B. Pinn

Review “This is a rare book in Africana studies. Its writers nicely demonstrate how African peoples sought both libe...

Race And Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights

Henry Goldschmidt

Review "Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights is a richly sustained and critically insightful eth...

African American Religious Cultures (2 Vol. Set)

Anthony B. Pinn

From African American Religious Cultures is a potential rival to the Encyclopedia of African and African American Religi...

To Save My Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius (Religion & American Culture)

Edward J. Robinson

Review "This book is well written and logically developed; the reader acquires an appreciation for the life and struggles...

Faith, Stories and the Experience of Black Elders: Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

Anthony G. Rie

About the Author Anthony G. Reddie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological ...

Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring with Herbs

Stephanie Rose Bird

About the Author Stephanie Rose Bird is a hereditary intuitive, contemporary rootworker, solitary green witch and visiona...

The Burden of Black Religion

Curtis J. Evans

Review "This important book offers a fresh and provocative take on the manner in which religion has been used to frame an...

Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights (Studies in Rhetoric and Religion)

Gary S. Selby

Review This book surprises the reader with discoveries that make its theme come alive with a renewed appreciation for how...

Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life (Religion, Health, and Healing)

Emilie M. Townes, Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Review "This is a most interesting work. It provides insight into the traditional African-American health practices that ar...

Black Routes to Islam (Critical Black Studies)

Hishaam D. Aidi, Manning Marable

Review "Erudite yet easy to read, these timely and stimulating essays cover a wide variety of fascinating topics. They reve...

Daughters of the Dreaming

Diane Bell

Review ... a classic. -- Choice, American Libraries Association Journal ... a leap forward in Aboriginal anthropology. --...

Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora

Elizabeth Mcalister

Review "A startling, stunning, and fascinating book about the blend of music, religion, and politics in Haitian culture. ...

Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East

David Leeming

From Publishers Weekly Teeming with gods, goddesses and heroes, the ancient Middle East served as the cradle of numerous ...

The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion (Religion Culture Critique)

Theodore Louis Trost

About the Author Theodore Louis Trost is Associate Professor in Religious Studies and New College at The University of Alab...

Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition

Cherylwade Hudson

From Publishers Weekly words to live by Organized by such themes as "Kindness and Love," "Discipline" and "Patience," Kid...

Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (Religion in America)

John Saillant

Review "In Haynes we have a significant but neglected figure whose life and writings link theology, republicanism, and ab...

Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion

Barbara Dianne Savage

From Publishers Weekly With the recent controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Democratic presidentia...

Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic (Black Religion Womanist Thought Social Justice)

Anthony B. Pinn, Dwight N. Hopkins

Review "Loving the Body arrives with miraculous timing. By moving embodiment, pleasure and sexuality to the center of the...

Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context

Review "Offers many ways to approach contemporary globalization, especially as it is experienced by insular societies wit...

God and Race in American Politics: A Short History

Mark A. Noll

Review Mark A. Noll is one of our leading historians of religion. . . . [God and Race in American Politics] tells us a lo...

Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Mark V. Tushnet

From Publishers Weekly Though this book covers some of the same ground as more popular histories like Richard Kluger's Si...

Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion

Milmon F. Harrison

From Publishers Weekly This debut is an engaging ethnographic account of the Word of Faith movement, a loosely affiliated...

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy)

Martin Luther King

Review Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest organic intellectuals in American history. His unique ability to ...

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