African American Spirituality Thought Culture

Author : Phyllis Baker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595442315
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African-American Spirituality, Thought & Culture written by Phyllis Baker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's and African Americans in general, historical roots and personal and professional understanding of her culture.

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664224592
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Religious Thought written by Cornel West and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.

Author : Phyllis Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781960063359
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fundamentals, Principles and Practices of African American Spirituality written by Phyllis Baker and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, The Fundamentals, Principles and Practices of African American Spirituality, traces the evolution, development, and practices of a large segment of African American Spiritual life, found within the Black Church. It seeks to provide a road map and link to traditions that made for highly evolved Spiritual Beings, while at the same time embraces the cultural legacy of African Americans, that is near and dear to this group of people. Dr. Baker is also the author of A Dreamer's Journey, and African American Spirituality Thought & Culture. She is soon to publish the book, The Sociology of Art, Religion and Culture.

Author : Peter J. Paris
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451415865
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirituality of African Peoples written by Peter J. Paris and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worldviews. Paris's careful scholarship and his eye for value in varying cultural milieus combine to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.

Author : Phyllis Baker
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780759395848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Spirituality 3e written by Phyllis Baker and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to make sense to myself; and to help other people understand themselves. Additionally, this works seeks to resurrect the souls of the ancestors, so we may draw from their knowledge, their power and their strength. It is to assist in putting our lives in perspective and provide a context that is meaningful and holistic. This work is for other ethnic and cultural groups as well, in an effort for them to gain some clarity and appreciation for the spiritual and cultural heritage of African Americans. In truth, there are some universal truths and principles that transcend culture. Perhaps this work can bring to light an understanding of how very fascinating human beings really are, particularly when viewed from a historical, cultural and spiritual context.

Author : Theophus H. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023197
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conjuring Culture written by Theophus H. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical means of transforming reality--in black spirituality and culture. Smith shows that the Bible, the sacred text of Western civilization, has in fact functioned as a magical formulary for African Americans. Going back to slave religion, and continuing in black folk practice and literature to the present day, the Bible has provided African Americans with ritual prescriptions for prophetically re-envisioning, and thereby transforming, their history and culture. In effect the Bible is a "conjure book" for prescribing cures and curses, and for invoking extraordinary and Divine powers to effect changes in the conditions of human existence--and to bring about justice and freedom. Biblical themes, symbols, and figures like Moses, the Exodus, the Promised Land, and the Suffering Servant, as deployed by African Americans, have crucially formed and reformed not only black culture, but American society as a whole. Smith examines not only the religious and political uses of conjure, but its influence on black aesthetics, in music, drama, folklore, and literature. The concept of conjure, he shows, is at the heart of an indigenous and still vital spirituality, with exciting implications for reformulating the next generation of black studies and black theology. Even more broadly, Smith proposes, "conjuring culture" can function as a new paradigm for understanding Western religious and cultural phenomena generally.

Author : Josef Sorett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199844933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit in the Dark written by Josef Sorett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.

Author : A. Pinn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622941
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Religion and Aesthetics written by A. Pinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of attention has been given to the sociopolitical and theological importance of Black Religion. However, of less academic concern up to this point is the aesthetic qualities that define much of what is said and done within the context of Black Religion. Recognizing the centrality of the black body for black religious thought and life, this book proposes a conversation concerning various dimensions of the aesthetic considerations and qualities of Black Religion as found in various parts of the world, including the the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. In this respect, Black Religion is simply meant to connote the religious orientations and arrangements of people of African descent across the globe.

Author : Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075125
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Religious Cultures [2 volumes] written by Anthony B. Pinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive presentation available on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, from traditions predating the era of the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary religious movements. Like no previous reference, African American Religious Cultures captures the full scope of African American religious identity, tracing the long history of African American engagement with spiritual practice while exploring the origins and complexities of current religious traditions. This breakthrough encyclopedia offers alphabetically organized entries on every major spiritual belief system as it has evolved among African American communities, covering its beginnings, development, major doctrinal points, rituals, important figures, and defining moments. In addition, the work illustrates how the social and economic realities of life for African Americans have shaped beliefs across the spectrum of religious cultures.

Author : Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256067
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Survivors written by Carlyle Fielding Stewart and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perceptive study of African American spirituality sees the experience of the African American church as an example for all other peoples in their struggles for liberation from the world's shackles.