Marcus Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Sacred Sound of the Conch Shell to the Cemetery Dance
To contemplate African American experience and its many racialized contours is to invoke a tensive quandary concerning the reconstruction of African American cultural identity in a dynamic network of historically assailed African diasporas. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach that deploys historical analysis as well as cross-cultural and epistemological reflection, this article gestures in such a reconstructive direction from the local vantage…
Hard Skies” and Bottomless Questions
Approaching Zora Neale Hurston as both a littérateur and cultural theorist who challenges conventional methodological and discursive boundaries, this article investigates her famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Drawing on Charles Long's category of “opacity” as a crucial factor in the dynamics of Black religious experience, I contend that the value of Their Eyes Were Watching God extends beyond the domain of literary theory into the domain…
Medial Deities and Relational Meanings
To date, few phenomenological studies analyze African religions at the level of epistemology. This essay engages in such an analysis with a focus on the cosmological tradition associated with the Akan of southern Ghana. I argue that medial Akan deities can be understood as constitutive elements of a grammar of knowing, the latter designating a mode of meaning construction serving as a formative component of an epistemology rooted in the significa…
Engaging the Orisa
The author contends in this essay that the thematic scope of Black theology can be significantly broadened through a consideration of tensive aspects and mysterious elements in African Diasporic religions. These motifs are explored through a theoretical examination of Ibeji and Olokun, two Yoruba principles encompassing tensionality, mystery, and a superabundance of meaning. The study counteracts a form of positivism found in James Cone's articul…
Medial Deities and Relational Meanings
To date, few phenomenological studies analyze African religions at the level of epistemology. This essay engages in such an analysis with a focus on the cosmological tradition associated with the Akan of southern Ghana. I argue that medial Akan deities can be understood as constitutive elements of a grammar of knowing, the latter designating a mode of meaning construction serving as a formative component of an epistemology rooted in the significa…
Engaging the Orisa
The author contends in this essay that the thematic scope of Black theology can be significantly broadened through a consideration of tensive aspects and mysterious elements in African Diasporic religions. These motifs are explored through a theoretical examination of Ibeji and Olokun, two Yoruba principles encompassing tensionality, mystery, and a superabundance of meaning. The study counteracts a form of positivism found in James Cone's articul…
Medial Deities and Relational Meanings
To date, few phenomenological studies analyze African religions at the level of epistemology. This essay engages in such an analysis with a focus on the cosmological tradition associated with the Akan of southern Ghana. I argue that medial Akan deities can be understood as constitutive elements of a grammar of knowing, the latter designating a mode of meaning construction serving as a formative component of an epistemology rooted in the significa…
Hard Skies” and Bottomless Questions
Approaching Zora Neale Hurston as both a littérateur and cultural theorist who challenges conventional methodological and discursive boundaries, this article investigates her famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Drawing on Charles Long's category of “opacity” as a crucial factor in the dynamics of Black religious experience, I contend that the value of Their Eyes Were Watching God extends beyond the domain of literary theory into the domain…
From the Sacred Sound of the Conch Shell to the Cemetery Dance
To contemplate African American experience and its many racialized contours is to invoke a tensive quandary concerning the reconstruction of African American cultural identity in a dynamic network of historically assailed African diasporas. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach that deploys historical analysis as well as cross-cultural and epistemological reflection, this article gestures in such a reconstructive direction from the local vantage…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works)