Embodiment and Black Religion

The authors Anthony Pinn, Jessica Davenport, Mark DeYoung, Justine Bakker, Jason Jeffries, Biko Gray, Sharde Chapman, Cleve Tinsley, and David Kline are part of the CERCL Writing Collective based at Rice University. In this innovative authorship project one member of the group produced the initial draft of each chapter which was then reviewed and revised in light of collective conversation. Something of the first author remains present, but the final version of each chapter encompasses their conversation with the other members of the collective.

• Introduction Bodies and Religion Anthony Pinn Part One: Religious Traditions 1. Heaven Knows No Color: Hybrid Bodies in Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement Anthony Pinn 2. Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head, this is God Body: The Body as a Site of Religious Expression in the Five Percenters CERCL Writing Collective Part Two: Cultural Production 3. Making Bodies with a Brush Stroke: African American Visual Art and the Re/constitution of Black Embodiment CERCL Writing Collective 4. Unchained Bodies: Black Womanhood, Resistance, and Complex Subjectivity in Black Literature CERCL Writing Collective 5. It was Written on her Face: Religion and Black Women's Embodied Emotion in Film CERCL Writing Collective 6. "School Daze": Embodiment and Meaning Making in Black Greek Letter Organizations CERCL Writing Collective Part Three: Religion in Everyday Life 7. Hoodies and Headwraps: Everyday Religion and the Dressing of Black Bodies CERCL Writing Collective 8. Gathering around the Table: Food Practices and Religious Meaning CERCL Writing Collective 9. Every-Body's Truth: The New Genetics of Race and the Quest for Complex Subjectivity CERCL Writing Collective Epilogue CERCL Writing Collective