Embodiment and Black Religion

The authors of this volume are the members of Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning Writing Collective: Anthony B. Pinn, Jessica B. Davenport, Justine M. Bakker, Cleve V. Tinsley IV, Biko Mandela Gray, David A. Kline, Jason O. Jeffries, Sharde N. Chapman and Mark A. DeYoung

• Introduction: Bodies and ReligionPart One: Religious Traditions1 Heaven Knows No Color: Hybrid Bodies in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement2 Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head, this is God Body: The Body as a Site of Religious Expression in the Five PercentersPart Two: Cultural Production3 Making Bodies with a Brush Stroke: African American Visual Art and the Re/constitution of Black Embodiment4 Unchained Bodies: Black Womanhood, Resistance, and Complex Subjectivity in Black Literature5 It Was Written on her Face: Religion and Black Women's Embodied Emotion in Film6 "School Daze": Embodiment and Meaning Making in Black Greek Letter OrganizationsPart Three: Religion in Everyday Life7 Hoodies and Headwraps: Everyday Religion and the Dressing of Black Bodies8 Gathering around the Table: Food Practices and Religious Meaning9 Every-Body's Truth: The New Genetics of Race and the Quest for Complex SubjectivityEpilogue