The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and...

From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, first p...

MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in Ame...

As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the o...

As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the o...

Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptu...

Scripturalizing the Human is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that reconceptu...

Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks ...

Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks ...

This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year p...