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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.
After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US
president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of
several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within
the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For
contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be
premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education,
and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise
within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished.
Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between
black and white realities, it has become more difficult to
articulate racial issues. Some deem ""race"" an increasingly
unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously ""post-racial""
times. The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their
limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the
extent to which a church's contemporary response to race
consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an
accurate public account of race.
After the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US
president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of
several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within
the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For
contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be
premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education,
and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise
within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished.
Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between
black and white realities, it has become more difficult to
articulate racial issues. Some deem ""race"" an increasingly
unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously ""post-racial""
times. The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their
limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the
extent to which a church's contemporary response to race
consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an
accurate public account of race.
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