The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion

1. Introduction: Alexander Crummell and the Destined Superiority of African People
Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Part 1. Africa in Diaspora

2. Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora
Afe Adogame

3. Christianity on Trial: The Nation of Islam and the Rastafari, 1930–1950
Maboula Soumahoro

4. Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African American Islam in Boston, 1948–1963
Fatimah Fanusie

Part 2. Diaspora in Literature and Culture

5. Robert Nathaniel Dett and African America’s Christian Kingdom of Culture, 1926–1932
Regennia N. Williams

6. Slain in the Spirit: Sexuality and Afro-Caribbean Religious Expression in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Merinda Simmons

7. Candomblé, Christianity, and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Maha Marouan

Part 3. Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

8. The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santería, Tourism, and Representations of the State
Angela N. Castañeda

9. Writing Out Africa? Racial Politics and the Cuban regla de ocha
Christine Ayorinde

10. Macumba Has Invaded All Spheres: Africanity, Black Magic, and the Study of Afro-Brazilian Religions
Kelly E. Hayes

Part 4. Diaspora in Theory

11. Early American Pentecostalism: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Anticipation
Matthew Waggoner

12. Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism
Jonathon S. Kahn

13. Africa on Our Minds
Russell T. Mccutcheon

14. Conclusion “Africa” in the Study of African American Religion
Eddie S. Glaude

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, African Culture, Religious Studies, general, Christian Theology, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Religion, History of Religion