UID:
almafu_9959236269202883
Format:
1 online resource (428 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-04-28342-0
Series Statement:
Aries Book Series, Volume 19
Content:
In Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” … , Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. assemble twenty groundbreaking essays that provide a rationale and parameters for Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise focused on the investigation of esoteric lore and practices in Africa and the African Diaspora. The goals of this new field — while akin to those of Religious Studies, Africana Studies, and Western Esoteric Studies — are focused on the impulses that give rise to Africana Esoteric Traditions (AETs) and the ways in which they can be understood as loci where issues such as race, ethnicity, and identity are engaged; and in which identity, embodiment, resistance, and meaning are negotiated.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Preliminary Material /
,
Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies: Mapping a New Endeavor /
,
Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook /
,
Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community /
,
The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? /
,
Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating Black ‘Cults and Sects’ in African-American Religious History /
,
Spirit is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches /
,
The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism /
,
Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan /
,
On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (1934–1975) /
,
Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Pseudonymous Writings of Henri Gamache /
,
Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics /
,
Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism /
,
The “Nu” Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York’s Nuwaubians /
,
Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors /
,
Astro-Black Mythology: The Poetry of Sun Ra /
,
Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-Hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic /
,
Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community /
,
Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition /
,
Rockin’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual /
,
Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men’s Musical Praise /
,
Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Aspects of Africana Spiritual Practices /
,
Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: “There Is a Mystery…” /
,
Afterword /
,
Bibliography /
,
Index /
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-30989-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-28309-9
Language:
English
Bookmarklink
