Esotericism in African American religious experience : "there is a mystery"... / edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr.
Contributor(s): Finley, Stephen C [editor.]
| Guillory, Margarita Simon [editor.] | Page, Hugh R [editor.]
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TextSeries: Aries book series: v. 19.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxi, 406 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004283091 (hardback) : alk. paper); 9004283099 (hardback) : alk. paper)Subject(s): Occultism -- United States | African Americans -- Religion | United States -- ReligionDDC classification: 200.89/96073 LOC classification: BF1434.U6 | E86 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-387) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-387) and index.
Introduction: Africana esoteric studies: mapping a new endeavor / Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Part 1: (Pre-) 19th century -- Esoteric writing of Vodou: grimoires, sigils, and the Houngan's notebook / Yvonne Chireau and Mambo Yve Zo Kommande LaMenfo -- Pascal Beverly Randolph in the African American community / Lana Finley -- The self divine: Know ye not that ye are gods? / Darnise C. Martin -- Part 2: Early to mid 20th century -- Working roots and conjuring traditions: relocating black 'cults and sects' in African-American religious history / Elizabeth Pérez -- Spirit is universal: development of black spiritualist churches / Mary Ann Clark -- The Harlem Renaissance as esotericism: black oragean modernism / Jon Woodson -- Mathematical theology: numerology the religious thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan / Stephen C. Finley -- On the knowledge of self and others: secrecy, concealment and revelation in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam (1934-1975) / Justine M. Bakker -- Post-imperial appropriation of text, tradition, and ritual in the pseudonymous writings of Henri Gamache / Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Mystery matters: embodiment and African American mystics / Chad Pevateaux -- Show and prove: five percenters and the study of African American esotericism / Biko Mandela Gray -- The "Nu" nation: an analysis of Malachi Z. York's Nuwaubians / Paul Easterling -- Sacred Not Secret: esoteric knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors / Julius H. Bailey --
Part 3: Late 20th century to present-day -- Astro-black mythology: the poetry of Sun Ra / Marques Redd -- Conjurational contraptions: techno-hermeneutics, mechanical wizardry, and the material culture of African American folk magic / Stephen C. Wehmeyer -- Portraying portraits: the intersectionality of self, art, and the Lacanian gaze in the Nahziryah monastic community / Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews -- Those mysteries, our mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the construction of a black esoteric tradition / Marques Redd -- Rockin' for a risen savior: Bakongo and Christian iconicity in the Louisiana Easter rock ritual / Joyce Marie Jackson -- Pole dancing for Jesus: negotiating movement and gender in men's musical praise / Alisha Lola Jones -- Wonder working power: reclaiming mystical and cosmological aspects of Africana spiritual practices / Barbara A. Holmes -- Conclusion: the continuing quest to map secrecy, concealment, and revelatory experiences in African esoteric discourse: "there is a mystery..." / Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr.