Esotericism in African American religious experience : : "there is a mystery" / / edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr. ; contributors, Julius H. Bailey [and twenty two others].

• Superior document: Aries Book Series, Volume 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Finley, Stephen C.,; Guillory, Margarita Simon,; Page, Hugh R., Jr.,; Bailey, Julius,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Aries book series ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stephen C. Finley , Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page -- Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies: Mapping a New Endeavor / Stephen C. Finley , Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page -- Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook / Yvonne Chireau and Mambo Vye Zo Kommande LaMenfo -- Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community / Lana Finley -- The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? / Darnise C. Martin -- Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating Black ‘Cults and Sects’ in African-American Religious History / Elizabeth Pérez -- Spirit is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches / Mary Ann Clark -- The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism / Jon Woodson -- Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan / Stephen C. Finley -- On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (1934–1975) / Justine M. Bakker -- Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Pseudonymous Writings of Henri Gamache / Hugh R. Page -- Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics / Chad Pevateaux -- Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism / Biko Mandela Gray -- The “Nu” Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York’s Nuwaubians / Paul Easterling -- Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors / Julius H. Bailey -- Astro-Black Mythology: The Poetry of Sun Ra / Marques Redd -- Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-Hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic / Stephen C. Wehmeyer -- Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community / Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews -- Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition / Marques Redd -- Rockin’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual / Joyce Marie Jackson -- Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men’s Musical Praise / Alisha Lola Jones -- Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Aspects of Africana Spiritual Practices / Barbara A. Holmes -- Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: “There Is a Mystery…” / Finley Stephen C. , Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page -- Afterword / Anthony B Pinn -- Bibliography / Stephen C. Finley , Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page -- Index / Stephen C. Finley , Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page.