Sylvester A. Johnson

African American Religions, 1500-2000

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich account of the long history of Black religion from the dawn of Western colonialism to the rise of the national security paradigm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 783g
• ISBN-13: 9780521198530
• ISBN-10: 0521198534
• Artikelnr.: 42801586

Autorenporträt

Sylvester A. Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Africana Religions, the only English-language peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing research on religions in African and throughout the Black diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Black Atlantic religion and Afro-European commerce; 2. On religious matters; 3. Colonial governance and religious subjectivity; 4. Stateless bodies
African missions
and the Black Christian settler colony; 5. Black political theology
white redemption
and soldiers for empire; 6. Garveyism
anticolonialism
and state repression of Black religions; 7. Fundamentalism
counterintelligence
and the 'negro rebellion'; 8. Black religion
the security state
and the racialization of Islam; 9. Conclusion. Black religion
freedom
and colonialism.