Project MUSE®: Journal of Africana Religions - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Africana Religions.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2013) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Africana ReligionsTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Africana Religions2165-54132165-5405Latest articles in Journal of Africana Religions. Feed provided by Project MUSE®“The Debt We Owe to Africa”: Florence Randolph’s Letters and Sermons in Edward Blyden’s Wake and the AMEZ Church Connection
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981488
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At the 1923 Long Island District Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church—self-identified as “The Freedom Church”—Reverend Florence Spearing Randolph (1866–1951) addressed the theme “The Debt We Owe to Africa,”1 as reported in The Star of Zion newspaper on October 18, 1923. Randolph was a prominent AMEZ Black American woman preacher, lecturer, suffragist, activist, and missionary. By using “We,” Randolph addresses both the AMEZ Church—an African American institution that has maintained an organizational network between its American and African churches since expanding to West Africa in the late nineteenth century—and the broader Black American community, suggesting a collective
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/598/image/coversmall“The Debt We Owe to Africa”: Florence Randolph’s Letters and Sermons in Edward Blyden’s Wake and the AMEZ Church Connection2026-01-25text/htmlen-US“The Debt We Owe to Africa”: Florence Randolph’s Letters and Sermons in Edward Blyden’s Wake and the AMEZ Church Connection2026-01-252026TWOProject MUSE®1194512026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-25Parallel Altars of Justice: Reimagining Kanzo and Ezili Fét in South Florida
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981489
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Globalization and transnational migrations have privileged South Florida as a hub for diverse Caribbean groups, the majority of whom are descendants of Africans forcefully taken to the Caribbean Islands and currently involved in secondary migrations to the United States of America and elsewhere. Consequently, a repertoire of Afro-Caribbean religious and cultural traditions, such as Haitian Vodou, proliferates in South Florida. These traditions provide migrants with resources for meeting their cultural and spiritual needs. The migrants also draw from these religious resources in navigating forms of social injustice and symbolic violence, including inequity, targeted demonizing rhetoric, racialized bodies, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/598/image/coversmallParallel Altars of Justice: Reimagining Kanzo and Ezili Fét in South Florida2026-01-25text/htmlen-USParallel Altars of Justice: Reimagining Kanzo and Ezili Fét in South Florida2026-01-252026TWOProject MUSE®1644802026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-25Oral History Interviews with Members of Al-Mu’minun Mosque (Formerly Nation of Islam Temple No. 28) in St. Louis, Missouri
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981490
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I was in my first year of graduate school, twenty-three years of age, when, in 1994, I began to conduct oral history interviews with members of Mu’minun Mosque (meaning the Mosque of the Believers or the Mosque of the Faithful), located at 1434 North Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. Just three blocks away from St. Alphonsus Liguori “the Rock” Catholic Church, an urban, mainly Black congregation where one older lady performed something of a ring shout around the large sanctuary during weekly mass, the mosque was in a part of north St. Louis that had been a lively neighborhood when it was originally established as Nation of Islam Temple No. 28 by Minister Clyde X, later Clyde Rahman, in 1958. An entire block
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/598/image/coversmallOral History Interviews with Members of Al-Mu’minun Mosque (Formerly Nation of Islam Temple No. 28) in St. Louis, Missouri2026-01-25text/htmlen-USOral History Interviews with Members of Al-Mu’minun Mosque (Formerly Nation of Islam Temple No. 28) in St. Louis, Missouri2026-01-252026TWOProject MUSE®1862862026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-25Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981491
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In Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Inter- nationalism, Richard Brent Turner composes an ambitious and interdisciplinary study that situates jazz music in Islamic religiosity at the heart of twentieth-century Black internationalism, bridging the worlds of religious studies, musicology, and Black diaspora to articulate a previously under-examined nexus: the intertwinement of African American Islam, jazz music, and Black international political imaginaries in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing from a diverse archive of musicians’ biographies, religious movements, Cold War cultural diplomacy, and performance histories, Turner argues that from the 1940s to the 1970s African American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/598/image/coversmallSoundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner (review)2026-01-25text/htmlen-USSoundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner (review)2026-01-252026TWOProject MUSE®212822026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-01-25