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With This Root about My Person : Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion /

"Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. The volume features twenty-six essays by a diverse group of students and scholars of Long. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition,...

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Otros Autores: Carrasco, Davíd (Editor ), Reid, Jennifer, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover
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  • Title
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  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Orienting ourselves / Jennifer Reid
  • Part 1. Religious imagination of matter: topographies of method. Chapter 1. Mapping oceans: Charles H. Long, colonialism, and the study of religion / David Chidester
  • Chapter 2. Long contact with significations / Jay Geller
  • Chapter 3. Indigeneity: the work of history of religions and Charles H. Long / Philip P. Arnold
  • Chapter 4. Seeking an interpretive center in the study of religion / Randal Cummings
  • Chapter 5. After fetishism: the study of religion in the age of the commodity / Tatsuo Murakami
  • Chapter 6. About cargo and the Melanesians / Garry W. Trompf
  • Chapter 7. "With this root about my person, no White man could whip me": Charles H. Long as intellectual rootworker in Africana religious studies / Tracey Elaine Hucks
  • Part 2. Religion, worlds, and order. Chapter 8. Opacity in Native American visions / Lisa Poirier
  • Chapter 9. Religion and the revolution in the life and work of Louis Riel / Jennifer Reid
  • Chapter 10. American civil religion: the gift and the economy of revolutionary freedom / Carole Lynn Stewart
  • Chapter 11. "Fired in the crucible of oppression": toward a theology of spiritual freedom / Raymond Carr
  • Chapter 12. Aesthetically analyzing the transactional moment: the involuntary presence as the grotesque / Jeania Ree V. Moore
  • Chapter 13. Civil religion in America: when the "empirical other" is us / Karen E. Fields
  • Chapter 14. The "donation" of King James: misreadings of the Black Atlantic / Vincent L. Wimbush
  • Part 3. Religions of Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas. Chapter 15. Thus spoke Ọrunmila: Ifa hermeneutics, education, and African cultural Renaissance / Jacob Olupona
  • Chapter 16. The fetish and Charles Long's theory of contact and exchange / Sylvester A. Johnson
  • Chapter 17. Charles H. Long - intellectual godfather: African Atlantic research team and Cuba's distinct religions / Jualynne E. Dodson
  • Chapter 18. The lithic imagination and the tertia: resources of art and literature for the study of Afro-Atlantic religion / Rachel Elizabeth Harding
  • Chapter 19. Contact/exchange in Charles H. Long's thought and the "concealed" spatial: sexual dimension of Black embodiment / James A. Noel
  • Chapter 20. Contested hermeneutical aims in Theologies opaque / Victor Anderson
  • Chapter 21. No other god: the theological crisis of American life / Matthew Johnson
  • Part 4. The Chicago tradition, Charles H. Long, and the history of religions. Chapter 22. Yes, there is (or was) a Chicago School of History of Religions / Nancy Falk
  • Chapter 23. An arche of his own: Charles H. Long as consummate and constant teacher / Lindsay Jones
  • Chapter 24. The Chicago School: an academic mode of being / Charles H. Long
  • Chapter 25. Codex Charles Long: the scholar who traveled to many places to understand others / Davíd Carrasco
  • Bibliography.