Engendering "Slave" Religion: Methodology Beyond the Invisible Institution

This article argues for a deprioritization of religious tradition in favor of practice-centered approaches to the study of religion among enslaved people in the United States as a means of rendering the African Atlantic and gendered dimensions more legible. In the wake of W.E.B. Du Bois's famou...

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Main Author: Wells-Oghoghomeh, Alexis (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2022
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 3, Pages: 579-598
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Afro-American syncretism / Slave / Christianity / Historiography / Method / Woman / Religious practice / Religious institution
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
CH Christianity and Society
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
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