Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.9.2.0258
Onisajé
Abstract:This essay describes religious racism suffered by Afro-Brazilian devotees at Ilê Axé Oyá L'adê Inan (a Candomblé terreiro). Members of a newly established evangelical church gathered in the middle of the night to hold an "exorcism" at the gate of the terreiro, or worship space, in Alagoinhas, Bahia.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0001
Kim R. Harris
Abstract:This article explores the movement of Black Catholic liturgical music across the Black Atlantic, examining the creation in the 1950s of the Missa Luba in Belgian-occupied Congo, its subsequent popularity among Black U.S. Catholics, and the ways in which it inspired Roman Catholic priest Clarence Rivers to compose his own Black American Mass. Rather than seeing the proliferation of "indigenized" African and African American Catholic liturgical music as a response mainly to changes at the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, I argue that African and African American people's compositions of liturgical music and their popular reception among Black and white Catholic audiences established a tradition of ethnic resurgence before Vatican II.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0042
James Kwateng-Yeboah
Abstract:Debates over the role of Pentecostalism in effecting modernity through its widespread "prosperity gospel" remain inconclusive. Though Weber's Protestant Ethic has been persistently invoked, sociological analyses reveal that the prosperity gospel challenges dominant Weberian conceptualizations of modernity. On one hand, the doctrine refutes Weber's central claim of modern societies by its pervasive "enchantment." On the other hand, the prosperity gospel shares modern traits of human autonomy and entrepreneurship. Does the prosperity gospel demonstrate simultaneously modern and antimodern themes? Using cases from Africa and the African diaspora, this essay critically reviews how modernity has functioned as a complicated category for analyses of the prosperity gospel and for Pentecostalism. Showing that modernity is mediated irreducibly by the historical and cultural backgrounds of the society it encounters, the essay argues for the potency of the "multiple modernities" paradigm as an analytical framework that better captures realities of Africana contexts, notably Pentecostalism and the prosperity gospel.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0118
Amanda Furiasse
Abstract:This article outlines the need for an interdisciplinary graduate program in Africana religions and public health at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The program would trace the colonial histories of these fields, train students through internships, and create partnerships between health officials and African diasporic communities in the Twin Cities that promote the insights of Africana ritual practices for hygiene, sanitation, and well-being.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0101
J. Settles
Abstract:The massive accession to Christian faith in postcolonial Africa is leading to the ongoing creation of distinctively African forms of Christian thought and practice that differ in significant ways from those of the West—a trend anticipated by developments in Black American Christianity. Africana religious studies has been imagined as a field that would "generate credible scholarship on indigenous African religious traditions," yet the rise of African Christianity raises questions about what constitutes indigeneity. If the Ethiopian church represents "Africa indigenously Christian," do these more recent developments suggest Christianity indigenously African? Can Christianity be considered indigenously African? Is there a need for Africana religious scholarship to reassess the widespread notion of Christianity as a cultural product of the West and an imposition alien to Africana peoples? If so, what does the rise of African Christianity indicate about both the nature and structure of Christianity, understood as an Africana religion?
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0021
D. Ngong
Abstract:This article argues that contemporary African Christian theology has largely understood time from a modern, linear perspective, which sees history as progress. Interestingly, the perception of history as progress is the straitjacket into which the story of Africa in the modern world has been told, often depicting the continent as needing to catch up with the progressive time of the modern world. This progressive, linear view of time is, however, quite problematic. This article argues that time is palimpsestic, rendering discourses of progress problematic but without nullifying the quest for improved overall well-being. The palimpsestic view of time fits the popular West African outlook that "no condition is permanent" and is demonstrated especially in the work of African women theologians such as Mercy Amba Oduyoye and Musa Dube, whose use of story as method challenges the linear view of time and is thus methodologically instructive for African theology.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0070
Monica R. Miller, C. Driscoll
Abstract:The authors attend to understudied Africana nonbeliever postures—including humanist, atheist, freethought, and nontheist—calling the field of Africana religions to study this quantitatively small, yet significant life orientation. The article includes a survey of Africana nonbeliever organizations and voices in the West, an overview of atheism and irreligious affiliation in certain African countries, and an argument that a critical methodological approach, augmented by a concern for hermeneutical variation, provides a platform for further research into Africana nonbelief.
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