Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning

Titel

Embodiment and Black religion : rethinking the body in African American religious experience

Ort / Verlag

Sheffield : Equinox

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Introduction: Bodies and religion -- Religious traditions -- Heaven knows no color : hybrid bodies in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement -- Arm, leg, leg, arm, head, this is God body : the body as a site of religious expression in the Five Percenters -- Cultural production -- Making bodies with a brush stroke : African American visual art and the re/constitution of Black embodiment -- Unchained bodies : Black womanhood, resistance, and complex subjectivity in Black literature -- It was written on her face : religion and Black women's embodied emotion in film -- "School daze" : embodiment and meaning making in Black Greek letter organizations -- Religion in everyday life -- Hoodies and headwraps : everyday religion and the dressing of Black bodies -- Gathering around the table : food practices and religious meaning -- Every-body's truth : the new genetics of race and the quest for complex subjectivity -- Epilogue