Description: Life Under the Baobab Tree : Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age, Hardcover by Ngwa, Kenneth N. (EDT); Niang, Aliou Cissé (EDT); Pressley, Arthur (EDT); Adegbite, Shola (CON); Yountae, An (CON), ISBN 1531502989, ISBN-13 9781531502980, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab Tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes non-linear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as “religion” apart from its intimate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree, and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have impacted Africana life, and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the Tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.
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Book Title: Life Under the Baobab Tree : Africana Studies and Religion in a T
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Life under the Baobab Tree : Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Theology, Religious, African
Item Height: 1.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28 Oz
Author: An Yountae
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia Ser.
Format: Hardcover
