Black lives and sacred humanity : toward an African American religious naturalism /
Author / Creator: | White, Carol Wayne, 1962- author. |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. ©2016 |
Description: | viii, 164 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10752525 |
Summary: | Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin. Supported by current theories in science studies, critical theory, and religious naturalism, this concept, as Carol Wayne White demonstrates, offers a capacious view of humans as interconnected, social, value-laden organisms with the capacity to transform themselves and create nobler worlds wherein all sentient creatures flourish. |
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Physical Description: | viii, 164 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780823269815 0823269817 9780823269822 0823269825 |