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].
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...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Aries Book Series, Volume 19 |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| 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. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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.