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Author: Stephanie Mitchem Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814757324 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 199
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Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.
Author: Joseph A. Bailey Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976539152 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 628
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Ancient African Terminology is a collection of terms assisting one to harmoniously "say what one means and mean what one says". Harmony implies complete adaptation of each part to the whole via perfect adjustments of all conditions. Its Essence derives from all word meanings originating out of Spiritually derived fixed Laws of Nature. Hence, "Knowing" is "Oneness of Involved Truth" of an Entity preceding its Mathematical Evolution onto all Cosmic Planes--Spiritual, Metaphysical, Mental, and Physical. Each Entity, as a vital integral part of a larger Cosmic System unit, has a rightful Belonging. Each Word Concept is an Abstract/Abstraction of the Essence of the Spiritual Elements of Unconditional Love, Truth, Reality, and the Natural. To "See" Similarities in Dissimilar things--Uniqueness in Similarities-Common in the Uncommon-Uncommon in the Common--provides Insights into Truths. Truth expands Instinct abilities to see Essence Principles as Vibrating Cosmic Laws. Such enhances ones "Being With" and "Doing For" benefits of a "ME/WE" lifestyle. Ones Creativity arranges/combines derived mosaic Spiritual Elements pieces into interrelationships for unifying corresponding diversity into Reality. Applications of Results to African Tradition's Values embrace Life, Beauty, Goodness, Wellness, Human Perfection, and Happiness. Using these as Standards, enables detection of Disharmony. Then, Appropriate, Accurate, and Precision "Thinking Words" fashion proper Defense, Protection, and Counter-measures for anti-Spiritual Elements forces
Author: Stephanie Mitchem Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814757324 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 199
Book Description
Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.
Author: Helen C. John Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004399313 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 274
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In Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion, Helen C. John juxtaposes grassroots biblical interpretations from Owamboland, Namibia, with professional interpretations of selected New Testament texts, effectively demonstrating the capacity of grassroots interpretations to destabilise, challenge and nuance dominant professional interpretations. John uses a cross-cultural and dialogical approach – ‘Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation Groups’ – to explore the relationship between African Traditional Religion (ATR), Christianity and biblical interpretation in Owamboland, Namibia. She contextualises the grassroots Owambo interpretations using fieldwork experiences and ethnographic literature, thus heightening the cross-cultural encounter. In particular, John reflects on Western epistemologies and the Eurocentric interpretative trends that are brought into relief by the African interpretations gathered in Owamboland.
Author: Valerie Babb Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107061725 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 499
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This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.
Author: Jonathan Bryan Durrant Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0810872455 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 293
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Covers the history of witchcraft from 1750 B.C.E. though the modern day. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography featuring cross-referenced entries on witch hunts, witchcraft trials, and related practices around the world.
Author: G. Baker-Fletcher Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230623832 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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Baker-Fletcher explores the Bible as a uniquely authoritative text within the context of Black church worship and service to the world, as well as analysing the Bible's central role in three forms of witness: translation, proclamation, and empowerment.
Author: Nyasha Junior Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191062510 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
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Reimagining Hagar illustrates that while interpretations of Hagar as Black are not frequent within the entire history of her interpretation, such interpretations are part of strategies to emphasize elements of Hagar's story in order to associate or disassociate her from particular groups. It considers how interpreters engage markers of difference, including gender, ethnicity, status and their intersections in their portrayals of Hagar. Nyasha Junior offers a reception history that examines interpretations of Hagar with a focus on interpretations of Hagar as a Black woman. Reception history within biblical studies considers the use, impact, and influence of biblical texts and looks at a necessarily small number of points within the long history of the transmission of biblical texts. This volume covers a limited selection of interpretations over time that is not intended to be a representative sample of interpretations of Hagar. It is beyond the scope of this book to offer a comprehensive collection of interpretations of Hagar throughout the history of biblical interpretation or in popular culture. Junior argues for the African presence in biblical texts; identifies and responds to White supremacist interpretations; offers cultural-historical interpretation that attends to the history of biblical interpretation within Black communities; and provides ideological criticism that uses the African-American context as a reading strategy. Reimagining Hagar offers a history of interpretation, but also expands beyond interpretation among Black communities to consider how various interpreters have identified Hagar as Black.
Author: Joey L. Dillard Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311088500X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 316
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1783096527 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 403
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This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.
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