Movements, Motions, Moments

Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

AvJudith Weisenfeld,Eric L Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Movements, Motions, Moments shows how African Americans have negotiated their participation and engagement in religious spaces. The book is divided into three sections—Movements, Motions, and Moments. Images of figures including Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, Noble Drew Ali, Father Divine, Prophet Elijah Muhammad, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Pauli Murray, Bishop Myokei Cain-Barrett, and others are depicted next to photographs of religious celebrations, ritual practices, and individual moments of faith and spirituality. Photographers include Lola Flash, Chester Higgins, Jason Miccolo Johnson, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Kenneth Royster, James Van Der Zee, Milton Williams, Lloyd W. Yearwood, and others.Photographs in this volume range from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and include religious traditions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, African indigenous, non-secular, and other religious traditions (Humanism, Atheism, Spiritualism, and others). It also includes photography capturing contemporary events and movements including Black Lives Matter and the global pandemic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-10
Mått:181 x 181 x 9 mm
Vikt:260 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Double Exposure
Antal sidor:88
Förlag:D Giles Ltd
Medarbetare:Young,Kevin
ISBN:9781913875190

Utforska kategorier

Fotografisamlingar inom Kultur
Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Judith Weisenfeld, PhD, is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (2016) and Hollywood Be Thy Name: African-American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (2007). Melanee C. Harvey, PhD, is assistant professor of Art History, Howard University, She is the author of, most recently, "Benny Andrews: Critically Constructing the American Figure, in Unforgettable: American Artists Reconsidered, (2022) and "Afro-American Images: 1971 as Evidence: Charting Mid-Century African American Artists Networks" in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks, Margaret Winslow, ed. (2021).Dr. Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Rice University. Previous publications include Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together, (2021), Humanism: Essays in Race, Religion, and Cultural Production, (2015), and Introducing African American Religion, (2013).Teddy Reeves, Ph.D., is curator of Religion, National Museum of African American History and Culture. Eric Lewis Williams, Ph.D., is curator of Religion, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. HE is the co-editor of T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology, (2019).

Recensioner i media

Praise for the Double Exposure series"Compelling and historic."--Maurice Berger, Lens blog, The New York Times "Some of the most definitive photographs that chronicle the black American experience."--Nicole Crowder, In Sight, The Washington Post

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture;Through a Glass Darkly by Eric L. Williams; The Presence of Power and the Power of Presence by Judith Weisenfeld; Introduction to Movements section by Anthony Pinn; Introduction to Motions section by Melanee Harvey; Introduction to Moments section by Teddy Reeves; Index