Add to ORKG1 This article applies theories of group dynamics and individual agency to past material expressions of core symbols within particular African American religious beliefs. The past creation and use of such artifacts is analyzed using theories concerning modes of symbolic expression, the interplay of dominant and nondominant religions, formation and maintenance of social group identities, and the role of individual creativity and innovation within those processes. This analysis demonstrates the ways in which facets of the core symbolic expressions of the BaKongo people of West Central Africa evolved over time and across the trans-Atlantic region
Controversial ideas over the origins of religion in black America arose among different scholars and...
The things to which we are connected benefit us to characterize who we are, who we were, and who we ...
ABSTRACT There is significant literature in the area of Africana Studies describing 'the ring sho...
The following essay represents a search for heuristically useful theory to understand the forces of ...
Native American and African American material culture of mid-19thcentury to present day appear to ho...
It is often thought that Africans, and the Igbo in particular, are disposed to abandoning their loca...
This paper examines systemic contexts for symbol use among the Maa-speaking Il Chamus in the Lake Ba...
Identity is one of the social constructs that gives a sense of belonging to an individual or a group...
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136516/1/ae.1984.11.3.02a00240.pd
Symbols change in their value and functions and as a result of the changes in cultural appreciation....
“The Construction of the African Slave Identity: Defying Hegemony through Syncretic Religious Practi...
The Tsonga tribal and Mozambican national identities are civil religious constructs. They resulted f...
In African spirituality, ancestor engagement with the community is always mediated through material ...
Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts associated with West African-derived spiritual belief system...
This article investigates the social status attributed to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in det...
Controversial ideas over the origins of religion in black America arose among different scholars and...
The things to which we are connected benefit us to characterize who we are, who we were, and who we ...
ABSTRACT There is significant literature in the area of Africana Studies describing 'the ring sho...
The following essay represents a search for heuristically useful theory to understand the forces of ...
Native American and African American material culture of mid-19thcentury to present day appear to ho...
It is often thought that Africans, and the Igbo in particular, are disposed to abandoning their loca...
This paper examines systemic contexts for symbol use among the Maa-speaking Il Chamus in the Lake Ba...
Identity is one of the social constructs that gives a sense of belonging to an individual or a group...
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136516/1/ae.1984.11.3.02a00240.pd
Symbols change in their value and functions and as a result of the changes in cultural appreciation....
“The Construction of the African Slave Identity: Defying Hegemony through Syncretic Religious Practi...
The Tsonga tribal and Mozambican national identities are civil religious constructs. They resulted f...
In African spirituality, ancestor engagement with the community is always mediated through material ...
Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts associated with West African-derived spiritual belief system...
This article investigates the social status attributed to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in det...
Controversial ideas over the origins of religion in black America arose among different scholars and...
The things to which we are connected benefit us to characterize who we are, who we were, and who we ...
ABSTRACT There is significant literature in the area of Africana Studies describing 'the ring sho...