Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age

CONTENTS\nIntroduction. Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age\nPART I\nUN/FOLDING IDENTITIES\n1. Nella Larsen’s Quicksand: Mourning through Biracial Identities\n2. Body as Praxis: Disarticulating the Human from Ownership and Property\n3. What It’s Like to Be a Blackened Body, and Why It’s Like That: A Preliminary Exploration\n4. The Rhizome and/as the Tree of Life: The Relational Poetics of Wisdom and Decolonizing Biblical Studies\n5. Senghorian Négritude and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism\nPART II\nAFRICANA ACTIVISM\n6. God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act\n7. “Doing the Will of God” as Loving God Whose Way Is Peace\n8. Mysticism and Mothering in Black Women’s Social Justice Activism: Brazil/USA\n9. A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music\n10. Must We Burn Isaac?: A Four-Part Hermeneutical Fantasy for Africana Epistemology\nPART III\nAFRICANA HISTORIOGRAPHIES AND MEMORIES\n11. From White Man’s Magic to Black Folks’ Wisdom\n12. Solidarity by Sharing Power: An Inculturated Organic Storytelling of Jonah and Mami Wata\n13. Envisioning Africana Religions: Seeking a Distinctive Voice for the Study of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora\n14. Interpreting from the Back/Black-Side: Exodus through the Shawl of Memory\n15. Conjuring Lost Books: (Re-)membering Fragmented Litanies at the Intersection of Africana and Biblical Studies\nAfterword\nList of Contributors\nIndex of Modern Authors\nIndex of Ancient Documents