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Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There is a Mystery" ..., brings together groundbreaking essays that inaugurate Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise that investigates esoteric lore and practices in Africa and the African Diaspora

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Finley, Stephen C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Aries book series ; v. 19.
Temas:
Occultism > United States.
African Americans > Religion.
Occultisme > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Religion.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Occultism.
Religion.
United States > Religion.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: (Pre- ) 19th Century.
  • 1. Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan's Notebook / Yvonne Chireau and Bon Mambo Vye Zo Kommande
  • 2. Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community / Lana Finley
  • 3. The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? / Darnise C. Martin
  • Part II: Early to Mid 20th Century.
  • 4. Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating 'Cults and Sects' in African American Religious History / Elizabeth Perez
  • 5. Spiritual is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches / Mary Ann Clark
  • 6. The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism / Jon Woodson
  • 7. Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan / Stephen C. Finley
  • 8. On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam (1934-1975) / Justine Bakker
  • 9. Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Writings of Henri Gamache / Hugh R. Page, Jr.
  • 10. Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics / Chad Pevateaux
  • 11. Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism / Biko Mandela Gray
  • 12. The "Nu" Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York's Nuwaubians / Paul Easterling
  • 13. Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwanbian Nation of Moors / Julius Bailey
  • Part III: Late 20th Century to Present-day.
  • 14. Astro-Black Mythology / Marques Redd
  • 15. Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic / Stephen Wehmeyer
  • 16. Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community / Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews
  • 17. Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition / Marques Redd
  • 18. Rocking' for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual / Joyce Marie Jackson
  • 19. Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men's Musical Praise / Alisha Lola Jones
  • 20. Wonder 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.

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