Research Catalog

Title

With this root about my person : Charles H. Long and new directions in the study of religion / edited by Jennifer Reid & Davíd Carrasco.

Publication

• Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reid, Jennifer, 1962-
• Carrasco, Davíd

Description

xxii, 335 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. The volume features twenty-six essays by a diverse group of students and scholars of Long. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas. In doing so they wrestle with the foundations of the study of religion that emerged out of the European Enlightenment, they engage the discipline's entrenchment in the conquest of the Americas, and they grapple with the field's legacy of colonialism. The book demonstrates tremendous breadth and depth of scope in its skillful comparative work on colonialism, which links the religions of the Americas, Melanesia, and Africa. This seminal work is an important addition to the Religions of the Americas Series and a valuable contribution to the field to which Charles H. Long was for so long devoted."-- Back cover.

Series Statement

Religions of the Americas series

Uniform Title

Religions of the Americas series.

Subject

• Long, Charles H
• Religion > Study and teaching > United States
• Religion > Philosophy
• Race > Religious aspects
• Colonies > Religious aspects
• Religion
• Religion > Study and teaching
• America > Religion
• America
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-335).

Contents

Introduction : orienting ourselves / Jennifer Reid -- Mapping oceans : Charles H. Long, colonialism, and the study of religion / David Chidester -- Long contact with significations / Jay Geller -- Indigeneity : the work of history of religions and Charles H. Long / Philip P. Arnold -- Seeking an interpretive center in the study of religion / Randal Cummings -- After fetishism : the study of religion in the age of the commodity / Tatsuo Murakami -- About cargo and the Melanesians / Garry W. Trompf -- "With this root about my person, no white man could whip me" : Charles H. Long as intellectual rootworker in Africana religious studies / Tracey Elaine Hucks -- Opacity in Native American visions / Lisa Poirier -- Religion and revolution in the life and work of Louis Riel / Jennifer Reid -- American civil religion : the gift and the economy of revolutionary freedom / Carole Lynn Stewart -- "Fired in the crucible of oppression" : toward a theology of spiritual freedom / Raymond Carr -- Aesthetically analyzing the transactional moment : the involuntary presence as the grotesque / Jeania Ree V. Moore -- Civil religion in America : when the "empirical other" is us / Karen E. Fields -- The "donation" of King James : misreadings of the Black Atlantic / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Thus spoke Ọrunmila : Ifa hermeneutics, education, and African cultural renaissance / Jacob Olupona -- The fetish and Charles Long's theory of contact and exchange / Sylvester A. Johnson -- Charles H. Long, intellectual godfather : African Atlantic research team and Cuba's distinct religions / Jualynne E. Dodson -- The lithic imagination and the tertia : resources of art and literature for the study of Afro-Atlantic religion / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- Contact/exchange in Charles H. Long's thought and the "concealed" spatial/sexual dimension of Black embodiment / James A. Noel -- Contested hermeneutical aims in theologies opaque / Victor Anderson -- No other God : the theological crisis of American life / Matthew Johnson -- Yes, there is (or was) a Chicago School of History of Religions / Nancy Falk -- An arche of his own : Charles H. Long as consummate and constant teacher / Lindsay Jones -- The Chicago School : an academic mode of being / Charles H. Long -- Codex Charles Long : the scholar who traveled to many places to understand others / Davíd Carrasco.

Call Number

Sc E 21-843

ISBN

• 0826361625
• 9780826361622

OCLC

1124974459

Title

With this root about my person : Charles H. Long and new directions in the study of religion / edited by Jennifer Reid & Davíd Carrasco.

Publisher

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religions of the Americas series

Religions of the Americas series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-335).

Local Note

ED: UNIV. OF MAINE, FARMINGTON. ANALYSIS OF LONG'S WORK ON AFRICANA RELIGIOUS STUDIES.

Added Author

Reid, Jennifer, 1962- editor.

Carrasco, Davíd, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-843