Black Secular Humanism and Its Significance for Contemporary Methodologies in Religious Studies
Throughout the tragic and dreadful onslaught of Western colonialism causing the Atlantic slave trade, the Black Church has been - as Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles in both the book and the PBS series The Black Church (2021) - a primary source of strength and solace. But this option is not the only...
| Subtitles: | "Creativity, Adaptation, and Innovation in Contemporary Paganism and New Age during the COVID-19 Pandemic" |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2023
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| In: |
Nova religio
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-110 |
| Review of: | Black freethinkers (Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2019) (Whitaker, Roy)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Blacks
/ Secularism
/ Science of Religion
/ Geschichte 2003-
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KBQ North America TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Throughout the tragic and dreadful onslaught of Western colonialism causing the Atlantic slave trade, the Black Church has been - as Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles in both the book and the PBS series The Black Church (2021) - a primary source of strength and solace. But this option is not the only viable life-choice, as humanists like to say. D. K. Evans' Emancipation of a Black Atheist, Christopher Cameron's Black Freethinkers, Sikivu Hutchinson's Humanists in the Hood, and Daniel Swann's A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists offer compelling counternarratives of segments in the Black community negotiating (post)coloniality, religion, and race through the prism of secularity. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.101 |
