Ackah / Dodson / Smith Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-46620-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ackah, William

Dodson, Jualynne E.

Smith, R. Drew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Cultural Dimensions of the Spirituality of African Peoples

William Ackah



Part I Expressions: Spirituality, Traditions and Identities in Context

Church Women’s legacies of Power: The Case of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the USA

Jualynne Dodson

Blacksmith’s Razor and the Vultures Head: African Spirituality and the Emancipation of Africa

Kofi Opoku

A Tale of Two Worlds: Early Nineteenth Century Encounters between the Akans and the Danes the Rise of Protestantism in West Africa

Ebenezer Ayesu

The Resurgence of the Presbyterian and Anglican Missions in Calabar

Ekwutosi Offiong

Pain and the Black Garment: Pastoral Responses to African Widowhood

ME Baloyi

An Act of Theological Negritude: Kwame Bediako on African Christian Identity

Tim Hartmann



Part II Culture: Aesthetics, Arts and Representation in Context

Embodied Performance: Black 20th Century Church Organizing and Social Change in the USA

Joy Bostic

Sounds of Blackness? Struggles for Freedom in 21st Century Congregational Songs in South London

Pauline Muir

The Cornel West Theory: Black Religion, The Prophetic Tradition and the Cultural Production of Hip Hop

Michael Brandon McCormack

Politically Freed Yet Mentally Enslaved! Reflecting on Psalm 8 by way of Steve Biko’s Notion of Black Beauty

Madiopane Masenya

Rape, Rage and Culture: African Men, Indigenous Knowledge and the Resolution of the Rape Crisis

Baba Buntu

Womanist Theology, Community Development and African American Youth: Invisibility and Art

Sarah Farmer

Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter: Representations of the Educational Empowerment of Muslim Women

Rizwana Latha