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Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"... de Stephen Finley

Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"...: Aries Book Series, cartea 19

Stephen Finley, Margarita Guillory, Hugh Page Jr.
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2014
In Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” …, Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. assemble twenty groundbreaking essays that provide a rationale and parameters for Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise focused on the investigation of esoteric lore and practices in Africa and the African Diaspora. The goals of this new field — while akin to those of Religious Studies, Africana Studies, and Western Esoteric Studies — are focused on the impulses that give rise to Africana Esoteric Traditions (AETs) and the ways in which they can be understood as loci where issues such as race, ethnicity, and identity are engaged; and in which identity, embodiment, resistance, and meaning are negotiated.
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ISBN-13: 9789004283091
ISBN-10: 9004283099
Pagini: 406
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Aries Book Series

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CONTENTS

Foreword
Jeffrey J. Kripal

Preface

Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies: Mapping a New Endeavor
Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr.

Part I: (Pre-) 19th Century

1Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook
Yvonne Chireau and Bon Mambo Vye Zo Kommande

2Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community
Lana Finley

3The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods?
Darnise C. Martin

Part II: Early to Mid 20th Century

4Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating ‘Cults and Sects’ in African American Religious History
Elizabeth Perez
5Spiritual is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches
Mary Ann Clark

6The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism
Jon Woodson

7Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan
Stephen C. Finley

8On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (1934-1975)
Justine Bakker

9Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Writings of Henri Gamache
Hugh R. Page, Jr.

10Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics
Chad Pevateaux

11Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism
Biko Mandela Gray

12The “Nu” Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York’s Nuwaubians
Paul Easterling

13Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwanbian Nation of Moors
Julius Bailey

Part III: Late 20th Century to Present-day

14Astro-Black Mythology
Marques Redd

15Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic
Stephen Wehmeyer

16Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community
Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews

17Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition
Marques Redd

18Rocking’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual
Joyce Marie Jackson

19Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men’s Musical Praise
Alisha Lola Jones

20Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Approaches to Africana Spiritual Practices
Barbara A. Holmes

Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: “There Is a Mystery…”
Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr.


Afterword
Anthony B. Pinn

Bibliography

Notă biografică

Stephen C. Finley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the African and African American Studies Program at Louisiana State University. An Executive Committee member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, he is completing his book, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam.

Margarita Simon Guillory is an assistant professor of religion at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include American Spiritualism, identity construction in African American religion, and social scientific approaches to religion. In addition to contributing essays to several edited volumes, she has published articles in Culture and Religion and Pastoral Psychology.

Hugh R. Page Jr. is Associate Professor of Theology and Africana Studies as well as Vice President, Associate Provost, and Dean of the First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN). He is general editor of The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora (Fortress, 2009) and author of Israel's Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse (Fortress, 2013).

Contributor include: Julius H. Bailey, Justine M. Bakker, Yvonne Chireau, Mary Ann Clark, Paul Easterling, Mambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo, Lana Finley, Biko Mandela Gray The Reverend Dr. Barbara A. Holmes, Joyce Marie Jackson, Alisha Lola Jones, Jeffrey J. Kripal, Darnise C. Martin, Aundrea L. Matthews, Elizabeth Perez, Chad Pevateaux, Anthony B. Pinn, Marques Redd, Stephen Wehmeyer, Jon Woodson.

Recenzii

"Overall, the book is well worth the read. For one, its transdisciplinary nature makes it appealing to scholars in the fields of visual and performing arts, history, anthropology, religious studies, African American studies, and business. Moreover, while it does not quite succeed in decentering Christianity, it certainly shows the importance of esoteric traditions alongside and within the religion. Perhaps most importantly, it refuses to reduce the African American experience to a simple narrative of the struggle for political equality. On the contrary, it enriches the realm of scholarly interpretation by persuasively arguing that secrets can drive culture and religion just as well as politics."
Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe, Nova Religio, Vol. 20, No. 4