Here's some of what you need to know to understand and celebrate Kwanzaa.

Religion and culture are deeply intertwined . Historically, the spirituality of a people has always been a reflection of ...

Seven leaders weigh in on the late Ghanaian scholar’s provocative legacy 20 years after his best-known book. What Luther and Calvin are for evangelical Christians globally, Kwame Bediako is for many ...

(RNS) — Ancestral veneration, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, Cuban Santería and Ifá have gained attention among Black adults, who see it as an occasion to reconnect with their heritage and ...

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(RNS) — John Samuel Mbiti, longtime professor of ecumenism and mission at the University of Bern and an ordained priest in the Anglican Communion, died recently. In every generation there rises a ...

The first time I heard the concept of “multiple religious belonging,” I was a college student. Iyanla Vanzant was a visiting professor at Bennett College during my senior year in 2011. While I wasn’t ...

Research in African Literatures, Vol. 50, No. 2, Special Issue: The Performance of Pan-Africanism (Summer 2019), pp. 19-34 (16 pages) This article analyzes Britain's theatrical contribution to the ...

There was dancing and celebration in the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday as people came out to celebrate Black ...

In a 1995 article in the Journal of Black Studies, Kenneth Christmon describes an interaction between the French ethnographer Marcel Griaule and a Dogon elder and priest named Ogotemmeli. Griaule, who ...

Article: Religion and Culture: Views of 10 ScholarsAfter the Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, edited by J. Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) Article: ...