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020 a| 9781531502980q| (hardback);

020 a| 1531502989q| (hardback);

020 a| 1531502970q| (paperback);

020 a| 9781531503000q| (electronic book);

020 a| 1531503004q| (electronic book);

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245 00 a| Life under the baobab tree :b| Africana studies and religion in a transitional age /c| edited by Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang, Arthur Pressley.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Fordham University Press,c| [2023];

300 a| ix, 432 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Transdisciplinary theological colloquia;

500 a| "Afterword. Catherine Keller"--Page ix.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and indexes.;

505 00 t| Introduction: Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age /r| Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cisš Niang, and Arthur Pressley --g| Part 1:t| Un/folding Identities : Archangel Gabriel Speaks to Mary /r| Pamela Mordecai --t| Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Mourning through Biracial Identities /r| Arthur Pressley --t| Body as Praxis: Disarticulating the Human from Ownership and Property An Yountae --t| What It's Like to Be a Blackened Body, and Why It's Like That: A Preliminary Exploration /r| Desmond Coleman --t| The Rhizome and/as the Tree of Life: The Relational Poetics of Wisdom and Decolonizing Biblical Studies /r| Paige Rawson --t| Senghorian Ňgritude and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism /r| Aliou Cisš Niang --g| Part 2:t| Africana Activism : Litany on the Line /r| Pamela Mordecai --t| God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act /r| Nimi Wariboko --t| "Doing the Will of God" as Loving God Whose Way Is Peace /r| Aliou Cisš Niang --t| Mysticism and Mothering in Black Women's Social Justice Activism: Brazil/USA /r| Rachel Elizabeth Harding --t| A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music /r| Sharon Kimberly Williams --t| Must We Burn Isaac?: A Four-Part Hermeneutical Fantasy for Africana Epistemology /r| Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo --g| Part 3:t| Africana Historiographies and Memories : Temitope Temitope /r| Pamela Mordecai --t| From White Man's Magic to Black Folks' Wisdom /r| Althea Spencer Miller --t| Solidarity by Sharing Power: An Inculturated Organic Storytelling of Jonah and Mami Wata 'Shola D. Adegbite --t| Envisioning Africana Religions: Seeking a Distinctive Voice for the Study of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora /r| Salim Faraji --t| Interpreting from the Back/Black-Side: Exodus through the Shawl of Memory /r| Kenneth N. Ngwa --t| Conjuring Lost Books: (Re-)membering Fragmented Litanies at the Intersection of Africana and Biblical Studies /r| (The Rev. Canon) Hugh R. Page Jr. --t| Afterword /r| Catherine Keller --t| List of Contributors --t| Index of Modern Authors --t| Index of Ancient Documents.;

520 a| "Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intelUlectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially "Africana" in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as "religion" apart from its intiUmate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected AfriUcana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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700 1 a| Pressley, Arthur,e| editor.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

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Life under the baobab tree : Africana studies and religion in a transitional age / edited by Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang, Arthur Pressley.

Format	Book
Publication	New York : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Description	ix, 432 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Black theology. Black people--Religion. Black people--Study and teaching.

Other author/creator	Ngwa, Kenneth Numfor, editor. https://isni.org/isni/0000000116602012
Other author/creator	Niang, Aliou Cissé, editor. https://isni.org/isni/0000000116777808
Other author/creator	Pressley, Arthur, editor.
Other author/creator	Keller, Catherine, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Series	Transdisciplinary theological colloquia Transdisciplinary theological colloquia. ^A1091751
Contents	Introduction: Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age / Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cisš Niang, and Arthur Pressley -- Part 1: Un/folding Identities : Archangel Gabriel Speaks to Mary / Pamela Mordecai -- Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Mourning through Biracial Identities / Arthur Pressley -- Body as Praxis: Disarticulating the Human from Ownership and Property An Yountae -- What It's Like to Be a Blackened Body, and Why It's Like That: A Preliminary Exploration / Desmond Coleman -- The Rhizome and/as the Tree of Life: The Relational Poetics of Wisdom and Decolonizing Biblical Studies / Paige Rawson -- Senghorian Ňgritude and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism / Aliou Cisš Niang -- Part 2: Africana Activism : Litany on the Line / Pamela Mordecai -- God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act / Nimi Wariboko -- "Doing the Will of God" as Loving God Whose Way Is Peace / Aliou Cisš Niang -- Mysticism and Mothering in Black Women's Social Justice Activism: Brazil/USA / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music / Sharon Kimberly Williams -- Must We Burn Isaac?: A Four-Part Hermeneutical Fantasy for Africana Epistemology / Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo -- Part 3: Africana Historiographies and Memories : Temitope Temitope / Pamela Mordecai -- From White Man's Magic to Black Folks' Wisdom / Althea Spencer Miller -- Solidarity by Sharing Power: An Inculturated Organic Storytelling of Jonah and Mami Wata 'Shola D. Adegbite -- Envisioning Africana Religions: Seeking a Distinctive Voice for the Study of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora / Salim Faraji -- Interpreting from the Back/Black-Side: Exodus through the Shawl of Memory / Kenneth N. Ngwa -- Conjuring Lost Books: (Re-)membering Fragmented Litanies at the Intersection of Africana and Biblical Studies / (The Rev. Canon) Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Afterword / Catherine Keller -- List of Contributors -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Documents.
Abstract	"Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intelUlectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially "Africana" in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as "religion" apart from its intiUmate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected AfriUcana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	"Afterword. Catherine Keller"--Page ix.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Issued in other form	Electronic version: Life under the baobab tree. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2023 9781531503000
ISBN	9781531502973
ISBN	9781531502980 (hardback)
ISBN	1531502989 (hardback)
ISBN	1531502970 (paperback)
ISBN	9781531503000 (electronic book)
ISBN	1531503004 (electronic book)

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