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 […]
The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin by Kristin Wendland Kristin Wendland is Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Music. The Power of Practice showcases the pioneering achievements of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) and how both disciplines transformed his life and practice. Menuhin’s contributions as a […]
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 […]
Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean by Scott Kugle Scott Kugle is Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics […]
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible by Jacob L. Wright Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, and associate faculty member at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the […]
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