Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam

Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and...

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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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Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth-century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt....

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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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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans

This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peo...

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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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Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism

For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many ...

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Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religion

Academic analyses of religious phenomena have often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies and prioritized the understanding of reli...

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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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Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British AtlanticWorld

As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Am...

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Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share TheirHusbands

In this social history of African American Muslim polygyny, Debra Majeed sheds light on the struggles of families whose form and function...

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Religion and Hip Hop

From Don Imus's "nappy headed-ho's" and default public scapegoating of Hip Hop culture to the burial of the "N...

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Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives onMalcolm and Martin

Professors Baldwin and Al-Hadid, at Vanderbilt and Tennessee State Universities respectively, persuasively argue that El-Hajj Malik El-Sh...

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In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam

In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression...

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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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Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the GreatMigration

Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North an...

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African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of theSociocultural Dynamics of Faith

This study of atheist African American writers poses a substantive challenge to those who see atheism in despairing and nihilistic terms. ...

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The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice

The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco...

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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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