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Exploring The Efficacy Of "Crooked Sticks" : Diasporan Resistance And Discursive Ambivalence In Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, Amy Schmidt Dec 2014

Exploring The Efficacy Of "Crooked Sticks" : Diasporan Resistance And Discursive Ambivalence In Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, Amy Schmidt

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.


In The Matter Of Race And Religion, Regennia N. Williams Apr 2014

In The Matter Of Race And Religion, Regennia N. Williams

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

Review of The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009).


The Matrix Of African American Sacred Music In The 21st Century, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Apr 2014

The Matrix Of African American Sacred Music In The 21st Century, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

This essay explores the praying grounds and contested terrains of African American sacred music in the twenty-first century. After presenting a womanist interdisciplinary methodology for experiencing and analyzing African American sacred music, the essay then (1) provides a socio-historical overview of the various types of music in the canopy of Black sacred music (2) examines selected music from several genres (3) analyzes some theological and ethical doctrines grounded in and emerging from particular musical selections and (4) offers reflections on some critical issues that are contested and need to inform music used in worship given emerging issues in African American …


Facilitating An Interdisciplinary Dialogue On Religion, Regennia N. Williams Apr 2014

Facilitating An Interdisciplinary Dialogue On Religion, Regennia N. Williams

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.