{"product_id":"life-under-the-baobab-tree-africana-studies-and-religion-in-a-transitional-age-9781531502973","title":"Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age \u003c\/i\u003eis a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness\/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intel-lectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially \"Africana\" in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. \u003ci\u003eLife Under the Baobab Tree \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as \"religion\" apart from its inti-mate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected Afri-cana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15578403\"\u003eKenneth N. Ngwa\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531502973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531502970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL102000\"\u003eTheology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI022000\"\u003eReligious\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004010\"\u003eAfrican\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Keller (Afterword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCatherine Keller \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of constructive theology at the Theological School of Drew University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eCloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglements\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth N. Ngwa (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKenneth Ngwa \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Religion and Global Health Forum at Drew Theological School. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLet My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAliou Cissé Niang (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAliou Cissé Niang \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Biblical Interpretation-New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: God, Human-Nature Relationship, and Negritude\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Pressley (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eArthur Pressley \u003c\/b\u003eis a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion at Drew Theological School. His clinical practice is in the areas of childhood trauma, medical psychology, psychological testing, and psychotherapy with adults and children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44519572504813,"sku":"9781531502973","price":69.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_79810fd9-a9e8-4ed7-976a-709134a35e38.jpg?v=1701261176","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/life-under-the-baobab-tree-africana-studies-and-religion-in-a-transitional-age-9781531502973","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}