Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa (Routledge Religion Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African conti...

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Religion and AIDS in Africa

The African AIDS epidemic has sparked fierce debate over the role of religion. Some scholars and activists argue that religion is contribu...

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African Origins of The Major World Religions

Reclaiming Afrikan religious precedence / Amon Saba Saakana -- Moses : African influence on Judaism / Yosef Ben-Jochannan -- The Kamitic...

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Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Usin...

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Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda

Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing ground...

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The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple ofthe Sun

Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest site...

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Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two

The Republic of Sudan gained its independence from Britain on the 1st of January 1956 an event which brought an end to decades of coloni...

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African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA,1905-1945

The middle class black women who people Judith Weisenfeld’s history were committed both to social action and to institutional expressio...

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The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters

For centuries, Psalm 68:31 "Princes shall come forth out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God," also ...

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Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New YorkCity

On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Dio...

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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison

Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid: Four black men from South Philly, two Christian and two Muslim, are serving life at Pennsylvania’s maximum-...

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Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300

Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and event...

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Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America

This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and ...

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Blacks in the Bible: Black Men and Women in Scripture: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture

What black woman was the first first lady of Israel? What Black Jewess won a black beauty contest by hiding her Jewish heritage? What Blac...

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Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition

In this book, Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the music-driven Pentecostal worship of two related churches: the Hou...

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That Old-Time Religion: The Story of Religious Foundations

This book shows how many Christian beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lu...

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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor. These slaves, serf...

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Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis

Black Religion explores the complexity of the black spiritual imagination using the autobiographies of three prominent religious leaders. ...

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Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins

What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou...

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Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intelle...

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