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Black religion and aesthetics : religious thought and life in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Anthony B. Pinn.

Contributor(s): Pinn, Anthony B
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0230605508 (alk. paper); 9780230605503 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Blacks -- Religion | Africa -- Religion | Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | African diaspora | Aesthetics, AfricanDDC classification: 200.89/96 LOC classification: BL2400 | .B53 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the Black labyrinth, aesthetics, and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn -- North and South America : A beautiful be-ing : religious humanism and the aesthetics of a new salvation / Anthony B. Pinn -- The foolish woman grows angry because they teach her : influences of sexism in Black church worship / Nancy Lynne Westfield -- Spiritual matters : the aesthetics of ritual substances in Umbanda / Lindsay L. Hale -- From Hattie to Halle : Black female bodies and spectatorship as ritual in Hollywood cinema / Carol B. Duncan -- The Caribbean : sacred forms, ritual, representation, and the body in Haitian painting / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Dancing with Ochún : imagining how a Black goddess became white / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Europe : Black suit matters : faith, politics, and representation in the religious documentary / Robert Beckford -- A dialectical spirituality of improvisation : the ambiguity of Black engagements with sacred texts / Anthony G. Reddie -- Africa : the aesthetic dimensions of religion in South Africa : Africa initiated churches considered / Linda E. Thomas -- Aesthetics in African art : implications for African theology / Elias K. Bongmba.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the Black labyrinth, aesthetics, and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn -- North and South America : A beautiful be-ing : religious humanism and the aesthetics of a new salvation / Anthony B. Pinn -- The foolish woman grows angry because they teach her : influences of sexism in Black church worship / Nancy Lynne Westfield -- Spiritual matters : the aesthetics of ritual substances in Umbanda / Lindsay L. Hale -- From Hattie to Halle : Black female bodies and spectatorship as ritual in Hollywood cinema / Carol B. Duncan -- The Caribbean : sacred forms, ritual, representation, and the body in Haitian painting / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Dancing with Ochún : imagining how a Black goddess became white / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Europe : Black suit matters : faith, politics, and representation in the religious documentary / Robert Beckford -- A dialectical spirituality of improvisation : the ambiguity of Black engagements with sacred texts / Anthony G. Reddie -- Africa : the aesthetic dimensions of religion in South Africa : Africa initiated churches considered / Linda E. Thomas -- Aesthetics in African art : implications for African theology / Elias K. Bongmba.

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