Embodiment and Black religion
Subtitle: rethinking the body in African American religious experience
By: CERCL Writing Collective
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Shffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781781793459; 9781781793466
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: African Americans; Religious life; Human body; Religious aspects; African American churches
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-146) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bodies and religion; title: Religious traditions; title: Heaven knows no color : hybrid bodies in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement; title: Arm, leg, leg, arm, head, this is God body : the body as a site of religious expression in the Five Percenters; title: Cultural production; title: Making bodies with a brush stroke : African American visual art and the re/constitution of Black embodiment; title: Unchained bodies : Black womanhood, resistance, and complex subjectivity in Black literature; title: It was written on her face : religion and Black women's embodied emotion in film; title: "School daze" : embodiment and meaning making in Black Greek letter organizations; title: Religion in everyday life; title: Hoodies and headwraps : everyday religion and the dressing of Black bodies; title: Gathering around the table : food practices and religious meaning; title: Every-body's truth : the new genetics of race and the quest for complex subjectivity; title: Epilogue.