Esotericism in African American religious experience : "there is a mystery" ... / edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part I: (Pre- ) 19th Century. -- 1. Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan's Notebook / Yvonne Chireau and Bon Mambo Vye Zo Kommande -- 2. Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community / Lana Finley -- 3. The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods? / Darnise C. Martin -- Part II: Early to Mid 20th Century. -- 4. Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating 'Cults and Sects' in African American Religious History / Elizabeth Perez -- 5. Spiritual is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches / Mary Ann Clark -- 6. The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism / Jon Woodson -- 7. Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan / Stephen C. Finley -- 8. On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam (1934-1975) / Justine Bakker -- 9. Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Writings of Henri Gamache / Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- 10. Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics / Chad Pevateaux -- 11. Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism / Biko Mandela Gray -- 12. The "Nu" Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York's Nuwaubians / Paul Easterling -- 13. Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwanbian Nation of Moors / Julius Bailey -- Part III: Late 20th Century to Present-day. -- 14. Astro-Black Mythology / Marques Redd -- 15. Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic / Stephen Wehmeyer -- 16. Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community / Margarita Simon Guillory and Aundrea Matthews -- 17. Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition / Marques Redd -- 18. Rocking' for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual / Joyce Marie Jackson -- 19. Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men's Musical Praise / Alisha Lola Jones -- 20. Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Approaches to Africana Spiritual Practices / Barbara A. Holmes -- Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: "There Is a Mystery ..." / Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Afterword / Anthony B. Pinn.

Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There is a Mystery" ..., brings together groundbreaking essays that inaugurate Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise that investigates esoteric lore and practices in Africa and the African Diaspora.

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