Black Lives and Sacred Humanity : : Toward an African American Religious Naturalism / / Carol Wayne White.

Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: In Search of a New Religious Ideal
  • Chapter 1. African American Religious Sensibilities and the Question of the Human
  • Chapter 2. Sacred Humanity as Stubborn, Irreducible Materiality
  • Chapter 3. Anna Julia Cooper: Relational Humanity and the Interplay of One and All
  • Chapter 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: Humans as Centers of Value and Creativity
  • Chapter 5. James Baldwin: Religion, Race, and the Love of Humanity
  • Conclusion: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index