Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia)

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Contents
Introduction. Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age | Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang, and Arthur Pressley
Part I : Un/Folding Identities Archangel Gabriel Speaks to Mary | Pamela Mordecai
	1. Nella Larsen’s Quicksand: Mourning Through Biracial Identities | Arthur Pressley
	2. Body as Praxis: Disarticulating the Human from Ownership and Property | An Yountae
	3. What it’s Like to Be a Blackened Body, and why it’s Like that: A Preliminary Exploration | Desmond Coleman
	4. The Rhizome and/as the Tree of Life: The Relational Poetics of Wisdom and Decolonizing Biblical Studies | A. Paige Rawson
	5. Senghorian Négritude and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism | Aliou Cissé Niang
Part II : Africana Activism Litany on the Line | Pamela Mordecai
	6. God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act | Nimi Wariboko
	7. “Doing the Will of God” as Loving God Whose Way is Peace | Aliou Cissé Niang
	8. Mysticism and Mothering in Black Women’s Social Justice Activism: Brazil/USA | Rachel Elizabeth Harding
	9. A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music | Sharon Kimberly Williams
	10. Must We Burn Isaac?: A Four-Part Hermeneutical Fantasy for Africana Epistemology | Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo
PART III : Africana Historiographies and Memories Temitope Temitope | Pamela Mordecai
	11. From White Man’s Magic to Black Folks’ Wisdom | Althea Spencer Miller
	12. Solidarity by Sharing Power: An Inculturated Organic Storytelling of Jonah and Mami Wata | ’Shola D. Adegbite
	13. Envisioning Africana Religions: Seeking a Distinctive Voice for the Study of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora | Salim Faraji
	14. Interpreting from the Back/Black-Side: Exodus through the Shawl of Memory | Kenneth N. Ngwa
	15. Conjuring Lost Books: (Re-)membering Fragmented Litanies at the Intersection of Africana and Biblical Studies | (The Rev. Canon) Hugh R. Page Jr
Afterword. Catherine Keller
List of Contributors
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Documents