The Souls of Womenfolk

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Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a

Women and Religion in the African Diaspora

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This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinar

Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

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It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-rangi

Working Cures

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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist

Thin Places

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Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lack