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Erik Meinema
Regulating Religious Coexistence

Regulating Religious Coexistence offers a compelling ethnographic analysis of how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in Kenya's coastal region. Th…

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Erik Meinema
Regulating Religious Coexistence

African Religions, Social Realities

Regulating Religious Coexistence offers a compelling ethnographic analysis of how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in Kenya's coastal region. Th…

lieferbar ab 22.9.2026.

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Toyin Falola
Yoruba Metaphysics

African Religions, Social Realities

Offering a fresh perspective on Yorùbá metaphysics and spirituality---and the roles these elements play in African communities---this comprehensive study contributes to the fields of philosophy, religious…

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Toyin Falola
Ifá Priestcraft

Born in 1947, Ifáyẹmí Ọ̀ṣúndàgbonù Ẹlẹ́buìbọn descends from a long line of Yorùbá healers, philosophers, and priests. A fervent disciple of Ifá from age four, Elebuibon grew to become both a living …

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Naomi Haynes
A Divine Season

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled "Christian nation"In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to "actualize" the country's constit…

lieferbar ab 18.8.2026.

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Tia Noelle Pratt
Black and Catholic

Black and Catholic documents the exclusion, erasure, and systematic racism faced by Black Catholics, filling an essential gap in both Catholic and Black history.In the storied history of the U.S. Catholic…

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Samiha Rahman
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams

Explores three generations of Black American Muslims pursuing education and liberation beyond the borders of the United StatesSince the 1970s, hundreds of Black American Muslims in the Tijani Sufi order h…

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Meredith Whitnah
Faith and the Fragility of Justice

South Africa has repeatedly made international headlines because of its high rates of gender-based violence. In the midst of a wide range of responses to the problem, an important voice has been largely a…

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Mathias Guenther
Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa

Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africagives an in-depth account of San mythology and its connections to the religion, social organization, and ecological adaptations of this erstwhile hunting-gat…

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Monica R Miller,
New Black Godz

Refiguring black culture and religion beyond conventional accounts, New Black Godz interrogates and rethinks problems and tropes within the fields of religious and Africana studies. Using the expressive c…

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Monica R Miller,
New Black Godz

Refiguring black culture and religion beyond conventional accounts, New Black Godz interrogates and rethinks problems and tropes within the fields of religious and Africana studies. Using the expressive c…

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Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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Alaina M Morgan
Atlantic Crescent

In the period between the twentieth century's two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the United States, South Asia, and the Caribbean collided across an expansive diasporic geography. As these peopl…

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Stéphan de Beer,
Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria

Looks at Christianity in the megacity of Johannesburg-Pretoria - exploring how it has shaped the city and its society.

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Christena Cleveland
The Black Madonna

A radical reclamation of the Black Madonna as a liberatory figure that offers a richly spiritual and politically charged vision of Black divinity and resistance.Social psychologist and author of God Is a …

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Owen E Williams
Christianity

The Christian faith is barely recognizable today compared to its foundational doctrines and beliefs as outlined in the Bible. Biblical teachings on bias, partiality, indifference, and warnings of greed, l…

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Daniel A Morris
Force, Religion, and the Quest for African American Justice

This study argues that Black calls for force in the struggle against white supremacy have echoed concepts and principles in the Western just war tradition.After establishing that just war theory has ignor…

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Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah,
Cosmologies of Mental Health

This open access book is based on a unique body of data on a hitherto understudied field of Pentecostal prayer camps and mental health in Ghana .The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cas…

lieferbar ab 14.5.2026.

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Gil Ribak
Crude Creatures

Corrects the record on how Yiddish media portrayed African Americans Understandings of Black-Jewish relations have been notable for the near consensus among scholars that the Yiddish press repeatedly cond…

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Joseph S Flipper
The Black Catholic Movement

Charts the Black Catholic attempt to gain independence within the larger Catholic ChurchIn 1971, a delegation of Black Catholics traveled to the Vatican seeking a meeting with Pope Paul VI. While they did…

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