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Life Under the Baobab Tree - Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age (Hardcover)
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Life Under the Baobab Tree - Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age (Hardcover)
Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
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Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a
Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously
written by early and later diaspora people of African descent.
Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the
Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience,
newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the
trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and
forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and
community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation
of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and
spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its
centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and
hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical
approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of
imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A
critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and
reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and
imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana
peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as
“religion” apart from its intimate connections to social
realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics,
environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To
that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic
relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the
Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors
the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative
responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists
reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the
nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of
Africa and in the African Diaspora.
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