Esotericism in African American religious experience
Subtitle: "there is a mystery" ...
By: edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr
Series: Aries book series. Texts and studies in Western esotericism -- VOLUME 19; Aries book series -- volume 19.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9789004283091; 9789004283428
Subjects: Religion; Occultism; Esoterik; Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus; African Americans
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-387) and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: Part I: (Pre- ) 19th Century.; title: 1. Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan's Notebook / Yvonne Chireau and Bon Mambo Vye Zo Kommande; title: 2. Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community / Lana Finley; title: 3. The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? / Darnise C. Martin; title: Part II: Early to Mid 20th Century.; title: 4. Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating 'Cults and Sects' in African American Religious History / Elizabeth Perez; title: 5. Spiritual is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches / Mary Ann Clark; title: 6. The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism / Jon Woodson; title: 7. Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan / Stephen C. Finley; title: 8. On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam (1934-1975) / Justine Bakker; title: 9. Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Writings of Henri Gamache / Hugh R. Page, Jr.; title: 10. Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics / Chad Pevateaux; title: 11. Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism / Biko Mandela Gray; title: 12. The "Nu" Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York's Nuwaubians / Paul Easterling; title: 13. Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwanbian Nation of Moors / Julius Bailey; title: Part III: Late 20th Century to Present-day.; title: 14. Astro-Black Mythology / Marques Redd; title: 15. Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic / Stephen Wehmeyer; title: 16. Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community / Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews; title: 17. Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition / Marques Redd; title: 18. Rocking' for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual / Joyce Marie Jackson; title: 19. Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men's Musical Praise / Alisha Lola Jones; title: 20. Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Approaches to Africana Spiritual Practices / Barbara A. Holmes; title: Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: "There Is a Mystery ..." / Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr.; title: Afterword / Anthony B. Pinn.