Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Editor: Ackah, William
- Editor: Dodson, Jualynne E.
- Editor: Smith, R. Drew
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Contents
- 1 Introduction: Mapping Religious Expressions and Spirituality of African Descendant Communities
- William Ackah
- Section 1: Religious Expressions, Traditions and Identities
- 2 Church Women's Legacy of Power: Case of U.S. African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Jualynne E. Dodson
- 3 Blacksmith's Razor and the Vulture's Head: African Spirituality and the Emancipation of Africa
- Kofi Asare Opoku
- 4 A Tale of Two Worlds: An Early Nineteenth Century Encounter between the Akan and the Danes and The Rise of Protestantism in West Africa
- Ebenezer Ayesu
- 5 The Resurgence of the Presbyterian and Anglican Missions in Calabar
- Ekwutosi Essien Offiong
- 6 Pain and the Black Garment: Pastoral Responses to African Widowhood
- Elijah Baloyi
- 7 An Act of Theological Negritude: Kwame Bediako on African Christian Identity
- Tim Hartmann
- Section 2: Arts, Aesthetics and Culture
- 8 From Selma to Ferguson: Embodied Performance, Social Change and
- Political Organizing within the United States
- Joy R. Bostic
- 9 Sounds of Blackness? Struggles for Freedom in 21st Century Congregational Songs in South London
- Pauline E. Muir
- 10 The Cornel West Theory: prophetic criticism and the cultural production of hip hop
- Michael Brandon McCormack
- 11 Politically Freed Yet Mentally Enslaved! Reflecting on Psalm 8 by way of Steve Biko's Notion of Black Beauty
- Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
- 12 Rape, Rage and Culture: African Men's Indigenous Knowledge and Resolutions to the Rape Crisis
- Baba Amani Olubanjo Buntu
- 13 Responding to Black Youth Invisibility: The Black Church Nurturing the Artist Within
- Sarah Farmer
- 14 Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and the Educational Empowerment of Muslim Women
- Rizwana Latha