Niggas in Paris?: Traveling between the Who and What of Diaspora in the Study of African American Religion
Designators of diasporic travel used within African American religion are seldom interrogated for the manner in which they rely on and reify sacred/profane thinking. These designators also attempt to recuperate a past identity through reliance on self-evident claims like home, memory, experienc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-53 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
West, Kanye 1977-
/ Baldwin, James 1924-1987
/ The Americas
/ Blacks
/ Diaspora (Social sciences)
/ Identity
/ Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion KBQ North America TK Recent history ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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| Summary: | Designators of diasporic travel used within African American religion are seldom interrogated for the manner in which they rely on and reify sacred/profane thinking. These designators also attempt to recuperate a past identity through reliance on self-evident claims like home, memory, experience, and so on. We turn to author James Baldwin and rapper Kanye West to emphasize the manner in which such travel and movement is multiplicative, never an endeavor limited to either sacred or profane. In an effort to take stock of the both/and of diasporic travel, we offer the theoretical instrument of aporetic flow, understood as the creative transmutation of impossibility into opportunity, where nonpassages enable movement. We seek to demonstrate how the analytic might contribute to theory and method in the study of African American religion specifically, and add to nascent critical discussions across the study of religion more generally that are beginning to situate religion as identity. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.4.1.0028 |