... Santeria church US Supreme Court religious freedom City of Hialeah animal slaughter racial laboratory ...

... The 1990s mark a significant turning point in Charles Wetli's career. By reflecting on Wetli's personal evolution, the chapter explores how Wetli testified on behalf of the Santeria church Lukumi Babalu Aye in a discrimination case against the City of Hialeah. Religious freedom was on the line...

... punishable by death, for homosexuals to even be intimate in the privacy of their bedrooms. The struggle for a universal human rights standard for LGBT people is complicated by seemingly intractable arguments based in cultural relativism and religious freedom. The effects of this disparity in rights...

... based in cultural relativism and religious freedom. The effects of this disparity in rights recognition are visible in tragic cases of abuse recorded against LGBTs. This essay highlights the ongoing struggle for securing basic legal protections for LGBTI people globally, as this remains a pressing issue...

..., expanded amusements, and revamped consumption habits announced their conviction that freedom should also transform their social lives. Freedpeople left slave barracks and founded all-black free villages, bought new clothes, and socialized in private and public space in ways anew. But their changed...

... has risen in visibility alongside Pakistan's transgender rights movements (2009-) entailing repentance on the NGO-madrassa circuit, through to couplings of preaching and dancing. Foregrounding tablighi khwaja sira embodied navigations through the shifting scripts of religious reform and liberal...

... Chapter 5 documents the ways Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) embraced and provided religious possibility for Black migrants from the American South and the Caribbean during the 1920s. Chapter 5 pulls from UNIA chapter documents, organizational bylaws, music...

..., and render ambiguous cherished values like freedom, agency, and liberation. By offering a close reading of several chapters in the text this chapter shows how death, loss, and trauma haunt and unsettle political categories and ideals typically associated with black strivings and progress. The chapter...

... own father had strong and underexplored ties to Black Christian organizing circles despite drawing support from multiracial and even ecumenical religious spaces. The epilogue centers the space of memory to suggest that alternative Black religious spaces have often existed despite clergy's commitment...

..., and remembrance. Stanley Kramer’s film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner prompts the viewer to align black freedom struggles with a postracial, forward-gazing imaginary that downplays the connections between race, class, and gender. Sidney Poitier’s character, the chapter argues, anticipates yearnings for a position...

...Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle ...

...Freedom’s Time of Trial<subtitle>1865–World War I</subtitle> ...

... Charlotte Maxeke (neé Manye) has been hailed as “the mother of the Black freedom struggle,” but the study of her work has been limited to political spaces despite her efforts to establish politically transformative churches. Chapter 3 focuses on 1871 to 1903, a formidable period when Charlotte...

... Beginning with 1985, Kingdom Come argues that African clergy led the nation when the government incarcerated, exiled, or killed South Africa's leaders. The introduction suggests that religious activism, largely embodied by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other clergy...

... limited religious alliances in southern Africa. African Orthodox Church anticolonial Southern Rhodesia Christianity racial identity ...

... Africana religion and Black religion more broadly cultivated religious spaces of belonging. Black nationalism Black religion political theology Marcus Garvey Caribbean migration ...