Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is a Professor of Film and Media in the Department of Film and Media. In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the […]

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad by Dianne Marie Stewart Dianne Marie Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of […]

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Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation by Calvin L. Warren Calvin L. Warren is Associate Professor of African American Studies in the Department of African American Studies. In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the “Negro question” is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the […]

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