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Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African
Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs
continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African
descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and
contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop
and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to
make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively
express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the
following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of
spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still
influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation
had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African
descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and
social organizations that house African spiritual expression in
tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The
essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects
with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and
the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate
students interested in the study of African religions, race and
religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African
Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs
continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African
descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and
contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop
and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to
make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively
express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the
following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of
spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still
influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation
had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African
descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and
social organizations that house African spiritual expression in
tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The
essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects
with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and
the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate
students interested in the study of African religions, race and
religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.
This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and
descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race
factors strongly in black health outcomes and dynamics, viewing
these matters from various disciplinary and national vantage
points. It delineates analysis and action that wrestle with the
multi-dimensional nature of black wellness and with ways broad
public resources and black religious resources should be mobilized
and leveraged to ensure collective black wellness.
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