Literary Expressions Of African Spirituality

Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739181424
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.

Author : Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality written by Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa moves into the 21st century it faces new spiritual, social, and economic challenges.

Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739181432
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Expressions of African Spirituality written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology. Diasporic in scope, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality offers new readings of black literatures through the prism of spiritual memory that survived the damaging impact of trans-Atlantic slaving. This memory is a significant thread that has often been missed in the reading and teaching of the literatures of the African diaspora. Essays in this collection explore unique black angles of seeing and ways of knowing that characterize African spiritual presence and influence in trans-Atlantic black artistic productions. Essays exploring works ranging from turn-of-the-century African American figure W.E.B. DuBois, South African novelist Zakes Mda, Haitian novelists Edwidge Danticat and Jacques Roumain, as well as African belief systems such as Voudoun and Candomble, provide a scope not yet offered in a single published volume. This collection explores the deep and often unconscious spiritual and psychosocial connectedness of people of African descent in the African and Ameri-Atlantic world.

Author : Georgene Bess Montgomery
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit and the Word written by Georgene Bess Montgomery and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth J. West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739179373
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction written by Elizabeth J. West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New World African spirituality as a syncretic dynamic of spiritual retentions and transformations that have played prominently in the literary imagination of black women writers. Beginning with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces applications and transformations of African spirituality in black women's writings that culminate in the conscious and deliberate celebration of Africanity in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The journey from Wheatley's veiled remembrances to Hurston's explicit gaze of continental Africa represents the literary journey of black women writers to represent Africa as not only a very real creative resource but also a liberating one. Hurston's icon of black female autonomy and self realization is woven from the thread work of African spiritual principles that date back to early black women's writings.

Author : Donald H. Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535804X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honoring the Ancestors written by Donald H. Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by historians, social scientists, and literary critics in the study of African-American religion and the Negro spiritual leads him to develop a methodology that encompasses contemporary scholarship without compromising the integrity of African-American religion and culture. Because the Negro spiritual is the earliest extant body of African-American folk religious narration, Matthews believes that it holds the key to understanding African-American religion. He explores the works of such seminal black scholars as W. E. B. DuBois, Melville Herskovits, and Zora Neale Hurston, tracing the early development of the African-centered approach to the interpretation of African-American religion. This approach involves "cultural/structuralism", the author's term for the method used by DuBois, Herskovits, and Hurston that emphasizes the thick reading of narrative expressions. Such a reading allows the scholar to identify the cultural significance of particular oral and written texts and serves as a point of identification and a cultural link between African and African-American religion. Matthews' close analysis of the spiritual employs a dialectical and postmodernist reading and reveals a religious philosophy that addresses the deepest concerns and desires of Africans in America. These concerns are cultural, political, and psychological, but are ultimately related to African religious structures of meaning. This book poses a challenge to end the battle between Afrocentrists and multiculturalists by acknowledging their common intellectual heritage in the works of DuBois, Herskovits, and Hurston. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of African-American religion and culture and those interested in Afrocentric literature.

Author : Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195182898
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Religion written by Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Religion offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase, African American religion, is meaningful only insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways religion has been leveraged by African Americans to respond to different racial regimes in the United States. If it does not do this, he argues, then it is time we got rid of the phrase.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350271969
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems written by Toyin Falola and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the three leading religious traditions in Africa (African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity), this book shows how belief in the supremacy of sacred words compels actions and influences practices in contemporary Africa. "Sacred words” are taken to mean holy texts as in divination, the Quran and the Bible. Toyin Falola evaluates how religious leaders engage with sacred words, both orals and texts, engendering practices that reveal the expression of religious beliefs, the impact of those beliefs, and the knowledge contained in them. Attention is given to the key ideas in the words chosen by religious leaders, and how they form a continuous knowledge system, impacting the politics of managing society and people.

Author : Nadra Nittle
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 150647151X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision written by Nadra Nittle and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision unpacks an oft-ignored but essential element of her work--her religion--and in so doing gives readers a deeper, richer understanding of her life and her writing. Nadra Nittle's wide-ranging, deep exploration of Morrison's oeuvre reveals the role of religion and spirituality in her life and literature.

Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104327
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Spirituality written by J. David Lewis-Williams and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations-from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New Age adherents. Neither caricature does justice to the complex world view of the San. Eminent anthropologists David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce present a instead balanced view of the spiritual life of this much-studied people, examining the interplay of their cosmology, myth, ritual, and art.