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Readers can find in this book multiple women in a variety of religious traditions and beginning sources, primary and secondary, for further research. But this handbook offers more than that. It includes women who until recently have been lost to memory even within their own communities and makes it impossible to ignore the prodigious extent to which women participated creatively in their traditions. Implicitly it argues the case that American religious...
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Despite constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S. population - roughly 5 percent - Asian Americans are a widely diverse group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions. This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including Chinese...
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"Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders, 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions), topical articles on important aspects of African...
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Focuses on religion, its place in African and African-American societies, and its impact on society in general. Provides information on religious movements in North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Many of these religions such as Santeria and Vodou are products of contact between major world religions (such as Christianity) and indigenous African traditions.
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