African and African American Religions in the Early Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23478326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Young (0000-0001-5521-4813, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Paul Harvey (0000-0001-7310-0537), Kathryn Gin Lum |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.26 |
| OpenAlex | W2793920102 |
| ISBN | 9780190221171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter chronicles the relationship between African religious practices on the continent and African American religion in the plantation Americas in the era of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A new generation of scholars who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated not only that African religious practices exhibit remarkable subtlety and complexity but also that these cultures have played significant roles in the subsequent development of religious practices throughout the world. Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion comprised a set of broad and varied religious practices that contributed to the development of creative, subtle, and complex belief systems that circulated around the African Diaspora. In addition, this chapter addresses some of the vexed epistemological challenges related to discussing and describing non-Western ritual and religious practices.
African american · Archaeology · Christianity · Diaspora · Epistemology · Ethnology · Islam · Religious belief · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |