The Gumbé is a drum whose beats call some West African and Africa diaspora communities together to announce important developments.
SCRIPTURALIZATION: A PRIMER
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ISS Director Sees Recent Supreme Court Decision on Voting Rights Act as Example of Violent Scriptural Politics
I felt a strong need to share these brief sentiments and reflections with you. This Supreme Court decision I find to be so harmful and violent that I could hardly sleep last night. As Brown v Board of 1954 and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 marked and greatly affected the beginning and early course…
INTERVIEWS
An Interview with Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at UCLA
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is Professor Emeritus, former Chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, and former Director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Professor DjeDje is author, editor, and compiler of several books, collections of essays, and recordings, a few of which include Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures…
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ISS Director Sees Recent Supreme Court Decision on Voting Rights Act as Example of Violent Scriptural Politics
I felt a strong need to share these brief sentiments and reflections with you. This Supreme Court decision I find to be so harmful and violent that I could hardly sleep last night. As Brown v Board of 1954 and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 marked and greatly affected the beginning and early course…
FROM THE ABENG
American Bible: The Constitution as Sacred Text
Join us at a live in-person event at Judson Memorial Church at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, for a timely discussion on the role religion has played in shaping originalist thought, as well as alternative approaches to understanding the Constitution and our relationship to it. For event details, visit https://brennan.swoogo.com/americanbible/begin?ref=speaker
The Abeng – A Journal of Transdisciplinary Criticism – Inaugural Issue
Inaugural Issue – November, 2014 Once admiringly acknowledged, in the words of a Xhosa praise, as NguZanengxaki (“Bringer of Problems”), Charles H. Long’s work over the last fifty years has significantly explored and expanded the boundaries of the History of Religions. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Long received his B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the…