Browse by Subject: Philosophy and Religion

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Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, advocated for progressive reform by fighting for racial equality, challenging white male supremacy, and addressing class oppression.

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Facing Florida: Essays on Culture and Religion in Early Modern Southeastern America

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Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative

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Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands

Debra Majeed sheds light on families whose form and function conflict with U.S. civil law. Polygyny--multiple-wife marriage--has steadily emerged as an alternative to the low numbers of marriageable African American men and the high number of female-led households in black America.

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Islam's Jesus

Takes a bold yet candid look at the highly charged topic of Jesus’s place in Islam, exploring some of the religion’s least understood aspects.

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Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia

Saved and Sanctified focuses on a Philadelphia church that was started above a horse stable by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation and is still active today.

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The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters

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From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology

Written by a trained theologian who was raised in the Jamaican village in which the Rastafarian faith originated, this history of its theology and rituals

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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans

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Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin