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African Traditional Religion in African and African Diaspora Scholarship
Scholars of African Traditional Religion (ATR) have addressed some challenges associated with the study of religion such as ATR, which is dynamic,...
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African Traditional Religion and Diaspora Transplantations: Nature and Formats
This chapter examines the meaning of African Traditional Religion, its features, and its sources as transplanted by Africans in the Diaspora, most...
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Interfaith Networks, the African Diaspora and Development: The Case of the United Kingdom
The problem of violence, terrorism, and radicalisation has triggered studies exploring the extent to which religion supports particular ideologies....
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African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective
The growth of African Pentecostalism impacts practice and expression of Christianity both on and off the continent. The range of Pentecostal...
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African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred
The chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences...
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Coloniality, Diaspora, and Decolonial Resistance
This chapter deals with two important processes of modern history: imperial colonialism, including slavery, and the struggle for decolonization and...
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The Spirit(s) in the Diaspora: African-Derived Religions
Buhring explores ideas of spirit(s) in African-derived religions in the Caribbean. The focus in this chapter is on three religious strands that are...
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Environmental Ethics of African Women Theologians
The main question that undergirds this chapter is: Which African philosophies inform the ethics of African women’s eco-critical theology? This...
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Introduction: Ethics and Philosophy, African Women’s Perspective
This book maps the philosophical and ethical paradigms African women proposed in propagating liberation theology. Through the Circle of Concerned...
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African Christians Outside of Africa
Through review of literature, this chapter argued that African Christians are engaging the West and the rest of the world in an evangelization...
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African Traditional Religion and the Sociocultural Environment
African Traditional Religion exerts tremendous influence on the perspective of Africans not only on the continent but also among the African Diaspora...
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Israel-Diaspora Relations: Latin American Continuities and Discontinuities
Both an ethno-national diasporic nature and a transnational trajectory shaped the Jewish condition worldwide and specifically in Latin America....
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Creating While Black and Female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African Feminist Decolonial Imaginary
Tsitsi Dangarembga has long been that one woman Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker and activist who has gained and maintained international acclaim. She...
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Imagining the Hong Kong Diaspora as an Imagined Community through the Lens of Relationality as a Feminist Spirituality
This chapter focuses on the Hong Kong diaspora, which has become a pressing issue due to the large-scale migration wave that followed the 2019...
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African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914
This chapter surveys the substantial contribution made by African and African American agents to the British Protestant missionary enterprise in...
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All Water Is Connected: African Earth Spirituality and Queering Identity in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi’s autobiographical novel Freshwater (2018) offers a thought-provoking exploration of gender, body politics, religion, Igbo cosmology,...
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Generational Search for Home: History, Race and Gendered Perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Not so many writers have focused on the concept of persistent search for home in the writings of African people in the diaspora and at the same time...
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African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project
Guided by consulting scholars including Andrew Walls and Kwame Bediako, I conducted pre-production field research among diverse Christian communities...
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The Spirit(s) in Slavery: African American Christianity
Buhring’s focus in this chapter is on the religious beliefs and practices of enslaved Africans in the United States. Here, he begins by examining...
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African Traditional Religion and Christianity in Contemporary Global Religious Space
Religion as an institution is found in every family, community, nation, and race. It is not restricted to any particular color, develo**, or...