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...

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Subtitles:"Creativity, Adaptation, and Innovation in Contemporary Paganism and New Age during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Main Author: Whitaker, Roy (Author)
Contributors: Cameron, Christopher 1983- (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Evans, D. K (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Hutchinson, Sikivu 1969- (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Swann, Daniel (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2023
In: Nova religio
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-110
Review of:Black freethinkers (Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2019) (Whitaker, Roy)
A qualitative study of black atheists (Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019) (Whitaker, Roy)
Further subjects:B Book review
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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.
ISSN:1541-8480
Contains:Enthalten in: Nova religio
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.101