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Abusing Religion
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
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Oprah
“Today on Oprah,” intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates the Oprah phenomenon and finds in Winfrey’s empire—Harpo Productions, O Magazine, and her new television network—an uncanny reflection of religion in modern society. Lofton shows that when Oprah liked, needed, or believed something, she offered her audience nothing less than spiritual revolution, reinforced by practices that fuse consumer behavior, celebrity ambition, and religious idiom. In short, Oprah Winfrey is a media messiah for a secular age. Lofton’s unique approach also situates the Oprah enterprise culturally, illuminating how Winfrey reflects and continues historical patterns of American religions.
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African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.
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Passionately human, no less divine
The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life
since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No
Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners
transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great
Migration northward. A work of religious, urban, and social
history, it is the first book-length analysis of the new religious
practices and traditions in Chicago that were stimulated by
migration and urbanization.
The book illustrates how the migration launched a new sacred
order among blacks in the city that reflected aspects of both
Southern black religion and modern city life. This new sacred order
was also largely female as African American women constituted more
than 70 percent of the membership in most black Protestant
churches.
Ultimately, Wallace Best demonstrates how black southerners
imparted a folk religious sensibility to Chicago's black churches.
In doing so, they ironically recast conceptions of modern, urban
African American religion in terms that signified the rural past.
In the same way that working class cultural idioms such as jazz and
the blues emerged in the secular arena as a means to represent
black modernity, he says, African American religion in Chicago,
with its negotiation between the past, the present, rural and
urban, revealed African American religion in modern form.
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Politics in the pews
As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations in the U.S., a church's activism results from complex negotiations between the pastor and the congregation. The church's traditions, its institutional organization, and its cultural traditions influence the choice to make politics part of the church's mission. The needs of the local community and opportunities to vote, lobby, campaign, or protest are also significant factors. By probing the dynamics of churches as social groups, McDaniel opens new perspectives on civil rights history and the evangelical politics of the twenty-first century. Politics in the Pews contributes to a clearer understanding of the forces that motivate any organization, religious or otherwise, to engage in politics.
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