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...
| Autres titres: | "Creativity, Adaptation, and Innovation in Contemporary Paganism and New Age during the COVID-19 Pandemic" |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Review |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Californiarnia Press
2023
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Nova religio
Année: 2023, Volume: 27, Numéro: 2, Pages: 101-110 |
| Compte rendu de: | Black freethinkers (Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2019) (Whitaker, Roy)
A qualitative study of black atheists (Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019) (Whitaker, Roy) |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.101 |