Esotericism in African American religious experience : "there is a mystery"... /

Esotericism in African American religious experience : "there is a mystery"... /

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...

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Other Authors: Finley, Stephen C.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Aries Book Series 19.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Occultism > United States.
African Americans > Religion.
Occultism.
Religion.
United States > Religion.
United States.

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Call Number: BF1434.U6 E86 2015

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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.