Showing results for "African" in Religion & Spirituality

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of women's bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T. D. Jakes, Lomax shows how Black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation.

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of...

An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian vodoun, and New Orleans voodoo.

""A bewitching political novel of contemporary Cairo that is also an engagé novel about sex, a romantic novel about power and a comic yet sympathetic novel about the vagaries of the human heart. Even the least politically oriented reader will find it engrossing."" — New York Times Book Review...

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African religions do not have a history unto themselves, apart from their interaction with the newer religious traditions of Islam and Christianity. Others concede that such a history exists, but believe the source materials are insufficient to reconstruct such a history. This book speaks directly to these critics.

What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent probes into the truth about Jesus's life and crucifixion. As a religious historian, Baigent explores the religious and political climate in which Jesus was born and raised, and the strife within the...

AFRICAN MYSTERIESAfrica before the invasion of other tribes and nationsInterviewed by Atolo Kay Media Artist Name: Digital Signstist, Musiq Mechaniqs, Digital Intelligence, Hav Moneybags, Midnite Tone, Southern Del, Smash Records Ent, Hav One, Mighty DreadReal Name: Leon AcheampongPRS: 01060061807PPL AUDIO: 0301310751PPL VIDEO: 0301310752ISNI: 0000 0005 1225 8938SE: 2180103200IPI: 00509030978ALL RIGHTS BELONGS TO LEON ACHEAMPONG

Born in West Africa in the early 1950s, Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Somé underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism.

Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in Black communities. Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 Black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline Black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary Black culture.

A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul care rituals, tools, and exercises.Spiritual teacher, intuitive coach, and award-winning author Abiola Abrams invites you to activate African goddess magic to transmute your fears and limiting beliefs so that you can create more happiness...

NewDay Church Podcast: Inspiring Sermons & Spiritual GrowthWelcome to the official podcast of NewDay Church, based in Edenvale, South Africa!. At NewDay Church, our mission is to see people saved, healed, set free, comforted, and released to be all they can be. We believe in being radically Word-based, embracing the principle of "The Bible plus nothing; the Bible minus nothing."This podcast features audio recordings of our Sunday Services, special events, and insightful teachings that will equip you to live a life transformed by God's grace. Whether you're seeking spiritual growth, a deeper ...

African American Magick infuses ancient techniques, rituals, and methods from around the world to use each season's inherent energies to supplement the health and well-being of body, mind, and soul.

Welcome to the podcast! Today, we're diving into the fascinating world of magic and mystical powers in African Traditional Religion, or ATR. It's a topic often misunderstood, so let's start with the basics.

Imagine...being born an African Princess, relinquished for adoption to Children's Home Society (of San Francisco), by an Italian-Croatian birth-mother, during a time in the United States when it was against 'somebody's' law for a European-descended woman to marry an African-descended man...and vice-versa. Ku Klux Klan lynchings were common in the Southern United States. At that time, my birth-mother, Mama Di, was a young teenager growing up in the Bay Area during the 1930's and '40's.On my 30th Birthday, while still working for Stevland Morris Music in Burbank, I was gifted the opportunity to ...

This is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to understand African American spirituality, shamanism, and indigenous spiritual practices and beliefs. It is designed to be informative while providing hands-on recipes, rituals, projects, and resources to help you become an active participant in its wonderfully soulful traditions.

In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative. Now, more than ever, we need to pause - intentionally - and encounter the Divine. Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these disciplines are woven into the African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community.

When you reconnect with the divine feminine and tap into the ancient wisdom of the powerful women who came before you, you become a walking embodiment of love, magic, compassion and power. The practices and channelled messages within this book are here to support you in going deep within your...

From a Black philosopher and the author of The Politics of Black Joy, an epic retelling of American history from slavery to Jim Crow from the perspective of the Black women who used magic and spirituality to gain freedom and reshape the culture of the nation. The Conjuring of America tells the...

A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression This book takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism...

George Weigel's New York Times bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of...