The Deliciousness of Truth
Black and Buddhist: In the face of white supremacy, Buddhism reteaches us how to relate to truth and to one another. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Category: African American Religions
A Full-Bodied Dharma
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Freedom Doesn’t Happen in a Day
Four voices celebrate the publication of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom. Buddhism offers practical tools to work through intergenerational trauma. By Cheryl A. Giles
Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives
A selected reading list of classic and contemporary memoir and autobiography from Nyasha Junior’s course.
Sacred, Ancestral Cries for Freedom
Black and Buddhist: The Eightfold Path finds resonance in the Black church. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
Let My People Go
Mass incarceration is Jim Crow’s most obvious descendent. Faith communities must focus on the collective work of dismantling this catastrophic system. By Raphael G. Warnock
A Movement with a Theology
How black churches relate to the Black Lives Matter movement is a complex and ever-evolving story. By Adelle M. Banks
Lessons in Dignity and Divinity
We can glean much wisdom from The Life of Omar Ibn Said. By Melissa Bartholomew
In Queer the New Black?
“Quareing” Afro-Diasporic religion allows for the possibility of celebrating nonnormative sexual identities in Black religious spaces. By Jennifer S. Leath
Recovering the Black Social Gospel
Given the legacy of the black social gospel tradition, retrieving the leading figures and ideas of this important movement is long overdue. By Gary Dorrien
Harvesting Souls
Black Pentecostal women’s altar work is physical and spiritual labor that yields individual and communal rewards. By Judith Casselberry
A Muslim’s Search for Meaning
The author starts from his own narrative to explore what it means to be part of a community (ummah) that engages the Qur’an as a living text. By Zain Abdullah
An Equilibrist Vodou Goddess
The Vodou spirit Ezili Freda represents an image of femininity defined by Haiti’s complex history. By Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
The Myth of Purity
The idea of purity in Yoruba-derived traditions needs to be challenged and complicated. By Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Lost and Found in Translation
Whether planned or accidental, desired or dreaded, the passage from one place to another, one life stage to another, or one state or status to another, often figures centrally in the stories we tell about our lives. By Michael Jackson
Playing Jane
Separated by 150 years, the life stories of two black Mormon women reveal how believers at the margins of a faith can move the center. By Max Perry Mueller
The Gift of Black Pentecostalism
African American Pentecostalism has a gift to offer for the renewal of the Christian church and for the healing of the nations. By Robert M. Franklin
Sacred Space Bridging South to North
An interview with Wallace Best. By Wendy McDowell
