Your Spirits Walk Beside Us

Your Spirits Walk Beside Us
Title Your Spirits Walk Beside Us PDF eBook
Author Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 368
Release 2009-06-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0674043111

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Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent.

Spirit in the Dark

Spirit in the Dark
Title Spirit in the Dark PDF eBook
Author Josef Sorett
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 313
Release 2016
Genre History
ISBN 0199844933

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While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.

Spirited Things

Spirited Things
Title Spirited Things PDF eBook
Author Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 351
Release 2014-05-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 022612293X

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The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things—including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph—as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.

Spirit(s) in Black Religion

Spirit(s) in Black Religion
Title Spirit(s) in Black Religion PDF eBook
Author Kurt Buhring
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 321
Release 2022-09-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 3031098870

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In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich resources within African and African-based religions to develop a more robust notion of the Holy Spirit for contemporary Black liberation theology. In so doing, Buhring offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action. The theology offered maintains the fundamental claim that God acts as liberator of the oppressed, while also calling for greater human responsibility and capability for bringing about liberation.

Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination

Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Title Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination PDF eBook
Author Kenyon Gradert
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 255
Release 2020-04-10
Genre History
ISBN 022669402X

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The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.

Sisters of the Spirit

Sisters of the Spirit
Title Sisters of the Spirit PDF eBook
Author William L. Andrews
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 256
Release 1986-07-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0253115248

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"Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes . . . but he does not intrude on the text itself." —New York Times Book Review " . . . informative and inspiring reading." —The Journal of American History Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.

African Religions

African Religions
Title African Religions PDF eBook
Author Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 177
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 0199790582

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This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.