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Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance
R. Marie Griffith (Ed.)
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Description for Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance
Paperback. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Editor(s): Griffith, R. Marie; Savage, Barbara Dianne. Series: Lived Religions. Num Pages: 400 pages, 14, 13 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HRCV; HRLM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and ... Read more
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Lived Religions
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801883705
SKU
V9780801883705
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About R. Marie Griffith (Ed.)
R. Marie Griffith is a professor of religion at Princeton University. Barbara Dianne Savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance
An excellent resource for students in religious studies and scholars of the various religious movements examined.
Ida Jones Journal of African American History 2008 Women and Religion in the African Diaspora both preserves and lovingly encompasses a multiplicity of black women's religious experiences.
Stephen D. Glazier Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2009
Ida Jones Journal of African American History 2008 Women and Religion in the African Diaspora both preserves and lovingly encompasses a multiplicity of black women's religious experiences.
Stephen D. Glazier Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2009