The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion

The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion engages a variety of conversations at the forefront of contemporary scholarship in the study of religion and in African diaspora studies. These conversations include: the construction of racial identity in diverse national settings (Brazil, Mexico, Britain, North America); new religious movements and nationalism; alternative religious narratives in the diaspora; literature read through the lens of diaspora; trans-Atlantic culture (the role of Denmark in Nella Larson's novel Quicksand, for example, or Ethiopia in Rastafarianism); and the role of the scholar and scholarship in the construction of religious and political meaning.

Theodore Louis Trost is Associate Professor in Religious Studies and New College at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He is the author of Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion (2002) and, with Carolyn M. Jones, the co-editor of Teaching African American Religions (2005). He teaches courses in American religious history, religion and popular culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Series Editor's Preface	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction: Alexander Crummell and the Destined Superiority of African People	p. 1
Africa in Diaspora
Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora	p. 17
Christianity on Trial: The Nation of Islam and the Rastafari, 1930-1950	p. 35
Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African American Islam in Boston, 1948-1963	p. 49
Diaspora in Literature and Culture
Robert Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian Kingdom of Culture, 1926-1932	p. 73
Slain in the Spirit: Sexuality and Afro-Caribbean Religious Expression in Nella Larsen's Quicksand	p. 93
Candomble, Christianity, and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's Paradise	p. 111
Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean
The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism, and Representations of the State	p. 131
Writing Out Africa? Racial Politics and the Cuban regla de ocha	p. 151
Macumba Has Invaded All Spheres: Africanity, Black Magic, and the Study of Afro-Brazilian Religions	p. 167
Diaspora in Theory
Early American Pentecostalism: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Anticipation	p. 193
Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism	p. 213
Africa on Our Minds	p. 229
Conclusion: "Africa" in the Study of African American Religion	p. 239
Notes on the Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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