This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice. * Includes 14 essays from 17 contributors, all distinguished in their careers as both observer participants and research scholars * Offers bibliographies and notes for each essay and a comprehensive bibliography concluding the book
Goddess. For example, she may say to herself, “Bless my womb and sex that I may know pleasure in my creativity as the Goddess has brought forth the universe.” This personal ritual and its ... The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines.
Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian, Denise C. Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo, eds. Women and New and Africana Religions. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010. Awe, Bolanle, ed. Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective. Lagos: Sankore, 1992. ______.
Taking command after the death of her husband, she ruled in Sierra Leone from 1885 to 1905. While “Mende women had a long history of political activity, which included becoming chiefs of towns,” Madame Yoko's rise to power and control ...
Atlantic First, it religious that the continent and their descendants in the diaspora held complex conceptions of ... in his Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World richly uncovers the “new modes of imagining ...
AESTHETICS The major artistic festival of St. Vincent is the Carnival in which both new calypsos are performed and varied multicolored costumes are paraded through the streets and playing fields of the Island ( Abrahams 1983 : 98-108 ...
The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh ... Noel, James A. Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Nwokeji, G. Ugo.
Method and Theory in the Study of Religions 21(4): 460–492. ———. 2011. “Other Religions as Social problem: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and Afro-Brazilian Traditions. ... Women and New and Africana Religions, 101–122.
The book demonstrates that the efforts by members of these movements to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America about the nature of racial identity and the collective future of black ...
Introduction to The New African Diaspora, edited by Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu, 3–30. ... In Women and New and Africana Religions, edited by Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise C. Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo, 123–44.
As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.