| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
| Series |
AAR teaching religious studies |
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AAR teaching religious studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction, Mining the motherlode of African American religious experience / Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost -- Teaching in the contact zone : the African American religions course in the large public university / Carolyn M. Jones -- On the plantation / Nancy A. Hardesty -- Border disputes : honoring our ancestors, honoring ourselves / Stephanie Y. Mitchem -- Incorporating the African American religious experience into the community college curriculum and classroom / Mary Jane Horton -- "I want to be ready!" : teaching Christian education in the African American experience / Yolanda Y. Smith -- "Testifying" and "testimony" : autobiographical narratives and African American religions / Moses N. Moore, Jr. -- Rethinking the core : African and African American religious perspectives in the seminary curriculum / Edwin David Aponte -- Acknowledging diversity in the American Catholic experience / Bernadette McNary-Zak -- "Making a way out of no way" : interpreting the praxis of the Black Church for theological education / Daphne C. Wiggins -- Tribal Talk : African ancestral spirituality as a resource for wholeness / Will "Esuyemi" Coleman -- Teaching from the crossroads : on religious healing in African Diaspora contexts in the Americas / Linda L. Barnes -- Teaching African American religions as learning to resist racism / Peter R. Gathje -- Teaching African Religions at a traditionally white institution in the South / Ralph C. Watkins -- Watching for religion and race at the movies / Theodore Louis Trost -- Afterword, Teaching religion behind the veil / Emilie M. Townes |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Religion -- Study and teaching
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Religion
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Religionswissenschaftliches Studium
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Schwärze
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Medine, Carolyn M. Jones.
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Trost, Theodore Louis, 1954-
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Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
019516797X |
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9780195167979 |
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9780195167986 |
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0195167988 |
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9780198037507 |
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0198037503 |
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