Teaching African American religions / edited by Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medine, Carolyn M. Jones.

Trost, Theodore Louis, 1954-

Series:

AAR teaching religious studies.

AAR teaching religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 253 p.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The variety & complexity of its traditions make African American religion a difficult topic to teach at undergraduate level. The essays in this volume offer practical, innovative ways to teach this subject in a variety of settings.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: Mining the Motherlode of African American Religious Experience

PART I: The Classroom as Contact Zone

1. Teaching in the Contact Zone: The African American Religions Course in the Large Public University

2. On the Plantation

3. Border Disputes: Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Ourselves

4. Incorporating the African American Religious Experience into the Community College Curriculum and Classroom

5. "I Want to Be Ready!": Teaching Christian Education in the African American Experience

PART II: Challenges to the Textual Canon and the Regnant History

6. "Testifying" and "Testimony": Autobiographical Narratives and African American Religions

7. Rethinking the Core: African and African American Religious Perspectives in the Seminary Curriculum

8. Acknowledging Diversity in the American Catholic Experience

9. "Making a Way Out of No Way": Interpreting the Praxis of the Black Church for Theological Education

10. Tribal Talk: African Ancestral Spirituality as a Resource for Wholeness

PART III: Decoding and other Modes of Analysis

11. Teaching from the Crossroads: On Religious Healing in African Diaspora Contexts in the Americas

12. Teaching African American Religions as Learning to Resist Racism

13. Teaching African Religions at a Traditionally White Institution in the South

14. Watching for Religion and Race at the Movies

Afterword: Teaching the Religion behind the Veil

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611196882

0-19-803750-3

0-19-516797-X

1-281-19688-6

OCLC:

56510749