With This Root about My Person

Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion

Jennifer Reid editor Davíd Carrasco editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th May '20

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Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. The volume features twenty-six essays by a diverse group of students and scholars of Long. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas. In doing so they wrestle with the foundations of the study of religion that emerged out of the European Enlightenment, they engage the discipline's entrenchment in the conquest of the Americas, and they grapple with the field's legacy of colonialism. The book demonstrates tremendous breadth and depth of scope in its skillful comparative work on colonialism, which links the religions of the Americas, Melanesia, and Africa. This seminal work is an important addition to the Religions of the Americas Series and a valuable contribution to the field to which Charles H. Long has for so long been devoted.

Remarkably the contributors illustrate a different aspect of the history of religions field due to Long's influence. This volume provides material for courses, or in the Long tradition, animated late-night discussions about the content and method of the history of religions."--Jill Raitt, author of The Colloquy of Montbéliard: Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century

ISBN: 9780826361622

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 642g

360 pages