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Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures, an interview, and two book reviews. The foreword is provided by Jennifer Reid, a former student of Long. The collection is divided into four thematic parts: America and the Study of Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; African American Religion in the United States; Kindling, Embers and Sparks.
Long's introduction provides much-awaited insight into his reflections on his work, expanding on questions that remained unanswered in his classic and influential text, Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Images (1986). In particular, the new introductory essay explores the significance of "ellipses", that which is omitted, the projected spaces of the Other in the study of religion.
Considered the preeminent founder and advocate of the study of Black Religion, Long was exploring religion and colonialism and the importance of Afro-American religion as early as the 1960s and early 1970s, and this collection of his thinking - which moves across the formations of religious studies, African diasporic studies, and social and cultural theory - is a must-have addition for any institutional or personal library.
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Introduction
Part One: America and the Study of Religion
1. America, Religious Interpretations of
2. New Orleans as an American City: Origins, Exchanges, Materialities, and Religion
Part Two: Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
3. The Study of Religion in the United States of America: Its Past and Its Future
4. Mentalities , Myths, and Religion
5. Encountering Wach: Hermeneutics, Religious Experience, and America
6. Introduction, written by Professors William Clebsch and Charles H. Long to the Reprint of Morris Jastrow, Jr's The Study of Religion
7. A Look at the Chicago Tradition in the History of Religions: Retrospect and Future
8. The Chicago School: An Academic Mode of Being
9. The University, the Liberal Arts, and the Teaching and Study of Religion
10. Mircea Eliade and the Imagination of Matter
11. Popular Religion
12. Transculturation and Religion
13. The Religious Implications of the Situation of Cultural Contact
14. New Space, New Time: Disjunctions and Context for a New World Religion
15. Religion, Discourse and Hermeneutics: New Approaches to the Study of Religion
Part Three: African American Religion in the United States
16. African American Religion in the United States of America: An Interpretive Essay
17. Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in The United States of America
18. Rapporteur's Commentary
19. What Is Africa to me?: Reflection, Discernment, and Anticipation
20. Bodies in Time and the Healing of Spaces: Religion, Temporalities, And Health
Part Four: Kindling, Embers and Sparks
21. Passage and Prayer: The Origin of Religion in the Atlantic World
22. Outline for Continuing Research For Understanding of Religion and its Study
23. From Colonialism to Community, Religion and Culture in Charles H. Long's Significations
24. Charles H. Long Interviewed by David Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, The Peabody Museum and the Harvard Divinity School
25. The Humanities and 'Other' Humans
26. History, Religion and the Future
27. Enlightenment, Ancestors, and Primordiality: A note on Modernity and Memory
28. Encounters with Korean Ancestors: Rituals, Dreams, and Stories
29. The West African High God: History and Religious Experience
30. Primitive/Civilised: The Axial Age in a World Context
31. Theodicy as/and and Modernity: Comments on Mark M. S. Scott's paper, Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion.
32. Religion and Mythology: A Critical Review of Some Recent Discussions
33. Book review - Other Times, Other Places: Myths and Cities in Meso-American Religion
34. Book review - The Dreams of Professor Campbell: Joseph Campbell's The Mythic Image
35. The Gift of Speech and the Travail of Language
36. Introduction to the Wesleyan University Edition of Henri Baudet's Paradise on Earth
37. How I Changed my Mind or Not
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