Nonfiction - Black Reads
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of ...
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Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evang...
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Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state...
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The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult and Persona
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /This book takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand angels, focusing on Africa and the cult and persona of the Archangel Michael...
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Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa's subjugation as a demonstra...
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's ...
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's ...
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Under the Palaver Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $41.00Original price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Doing theology Under the Palaver Tree, in honor of one of Africa's foremost theologians, Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, is a momentous undertaking, which dra...
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Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongo...
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Together in Mission: The Anglican Church in Malawi and the Church of England Birmingham, 1966-2016
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Malawi Birmingham Partnership dating back to 1966 was one of the earliest 'companion links' between an English and an overseas diocese and has ...
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The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918-1929
HardcoverOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coas...
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Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. Performing Power in Nigeria e...
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Us: The Resurrection of American Terror
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"The white racist has ruled the world for a long time, and the crises we are undergoing now are involved with the fact that the habits of power are...
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Ten African Cardinals
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /While the Catholic Church is languishing in much of the West, by contrast it flourishes across Africa. Despite this, most African Church leaders re...
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Unveiling and Retelling Our History: Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Take a walk with BEMCSC, as we journey through our past, present, and future by relaying where we have been, where we are going right now, and wher...
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The Amazing Iroquois and the Invention of the Empire State
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and dem...
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new...
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Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgott...
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An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholar...
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What's Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781570756092 Publisher: Orbis Books Publication Date: 10-28-2005 Pages: 252 Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics a...
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics a...
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The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa...
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The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose...
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