This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.

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Theodore Louis Trost is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama.

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Introduction: Alexander Crummell and the Belief in African Superiority - Wilson Jeremiah Moses PART I: AFRICA IN DIASPORA Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora - Afe Adogame The Bible and the Quran among the Rastafari and the Nation of Islam - Maboula Soumahoro Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African-American Islam in Boston 1948-1963 - Fatimah Fanusie PART II: DIASPORA IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Robert Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian Kingdom of Culture, 1926-1932 - Regennia N. Williams Slain in the Spirit: Sexuality and Afro-Caribbean Religious Expression in Nella Larsen's Quicksand - Merinda Simmons Candomblé, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Maha Marouan PART III: DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA Understanding Diaspora Culture: African Religious Heritage in the Caribbean - Katherine A. Smith The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism and Representations of the State - Angela N. Castañeda Writing out Africa? Racial Politics and the Cuban regla de ocha - Christine Ayorinde PART IV: DIASPORA IN THEORY Macumba Has Invaded all Spheres: Africanity, Black Magic and the Study of Afro-Brazilian Religions - Kelly Hayes Early American Pentecostalism: Race, Religion and the Politics of Anticipation - Matthew Waggoner Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism - Jonathon Kahn Conclusion: "'Africa' in the Study of African American Religion" - Eddie S. Glaude Afterword: "'Religion' in the Study of the African Diaspora" - Russell T. McCutcheon