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Displaying records 111 through 120 of 165 |
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Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Knut Holter
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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220.096
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Publication Date: 2000-09
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Reading Level: 162
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Description: The twentieth century made the Old Testament an African book. As the ancient texts have been translated into numerous languages and cultures throughout the continent, grass-root readers have found them to reflect their own experience of life, and the growing number of African Old Testament scholars have made various studies where the texts are read in the light of the African religio- and socio-cultural tradition. The present essay collection presents and analyses different aspects of the Old Testament readings in Africa. In particular, their socio-intelletual context is emphasized, and it is argued that Western Old Testament scholarship would benefit from acquainting itself with African readings of the Old Testament.
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mattias Gardell::Mattias Gardell
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 297.87
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Publication Date: 1996-12
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Reading Level: 482
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Description: In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story within the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism, and the long but hidden Islamic presence in North America. He presents with insight and balance a detailed view of one of the most controversial yet least explored organizations in the United States—and its current leader.
Beginning with Master Farad Muhammad, believed to be God in Person, Gardell examines the origins of the Nation. His research on the period of Elijah Muhammad’s long leadership draws on previously unreleased FBI files that reveal a clear picture of the bureau’s attempts to neutralize the Nation of Islam. In addition, they shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Malcolm X. With the main part of the book focused on the fortunes of the Nation after Elijah Muhammad’s death, Gardell then turns to the figure of Minister Farrakhan. From his emergence as the dominant voice of the radical black Islamic community to his leadership of the Million Man March, Farrakhan has often been portrayed as a demagogue, bigot, racist, and anti-Semite. Gardell balances the media’s view of the Nation and Farrakhan with the Nation’s own views and with the perspectives of the black community in which the organization actively works. His investigation, based on field research, taped lectures, and interviews, leads to the fullest account yet of the Nation of Islam’s ideology and theology, and its complicated relations with mainstream Islam, the black church, the Jewish community, extremist white nationalists, and the urban culture of black American youth, particularly the hip-hop movement and gangs.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $29.70
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: W Wilson Fallin
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.617810808996073
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Publication Date: 1997-07-01
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Reading Level: 220
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Description: This book offers a comprehensive history of the African American church in a community which played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. While the church in Birmingham was indeed a spiritual community, it was also the central institution in the African American community at large, providing leadership as well as economic, political, and social functions in a segregated racist society.
This historical analysis begins in the period of slavery with the development of a particularly African American version of Christianity from the merging of African and white evangelical religions. As African Americans moved to Birmingham from the black belt of Alabama, they formed churches which were spiritual communities where African Americans sought hope, security, moral discipline, and self-esteem in the face of racism and segregation. In addition, the study illustrates how churches established institutions that met educational, benevolent, and economic needs. The study concludes with a look at the leadershipprovided by churchmen in the civil rights movement, who brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to the city for massive civil rights demonstrations.
(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama, 1995; revised with new preface, foreword, introduction, afterword)
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Price: $131.95
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Sale: $131.95
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.6
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Publication Date: 1998-10-30
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: African religions, as well as those religions that derive much of their cosmology, beliefs, and rituals from African religions, are becoming more international in scope and appeal. Yet they continue to be viewed either as indiscriminately adaptable or as static traditions. Neither view suggests much spiritual or psychological value outside their original milieu when compared with the so-called world religions. The chapters in this volume focus on African and African-derived religions, and challenge many of these positions. They examine how these religions display themselves in the contemporary world, particularly in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. These religions' continued dynamism and their relationship with other religious traditions, especially through the process of syncretism, are also explored. This multidisciplinary collection makes a major contribution not only to a better understanding of African and African-derived religions, but it also contributes to the wider and ongoing debate on syncretism that continues to engage those in anthropology, history, and sociology of religion.
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Manufacturer: Africa World Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alfred G., Jr. Dunston
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Publisher: Africa World Press
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Edition: 1st Africa World Press Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 221.8305896
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Publication Date: 1992-01
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Reading Level: 163
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Description: An attempt to portray the Black man as he was viewed during the Old Testament times.
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Price: $109.95
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Sale: $109.95
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Manufacturer: Mellen University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Emmanuel Asante
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Publisher: Mellen University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231.720966
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Publication Date: 1995-05
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Reading Level: 197
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $9.92
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Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Moses N. Moore
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Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.046
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Publication Date: 1996-07-11
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Moore provides new insights into the complex and crucial role which the Protestant liberal theology of the evangelical missionary enterprise played in the evolution of Pan-Africanism, highlighting the role of Christian activist Orishatukeh Faduma.6240; A1S0; REL030000; REL045000
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Price: $54.50
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Sale: $15.96
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Manufacturer: State Univ of New York Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edward E., IV Curtis
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Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 297.87
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Publication Date: 2002-05
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Reading Level: 174
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Description: Explores modern African-American Islamic thought within the context of Islamic history, giving special attention to questions of universality versus particularity within this tradition.
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Price: $83.50
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Sale: $10.39
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Clarence Taylor
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.4723008996073
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Publication Date: 1994-04-15
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Reading Level: 297
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Description: -- The New York Times Book Review
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Patrick Bascio
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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.08996073
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Publication Date: 1994-04
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Reading Level: 160
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