Description
This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.
Africana Faith: A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam has that rare virtue of being a necessary text. In breadth, creative organization, and nuance, the anthology works on many levels as James Conyers has assembled works offering analyses of African American Muslims within the context of American historiography and a broad array of debates across the social sciences. A classic reader is born!
——Lewis Gordon, author of An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
James L. Conyers, Jr., Ph.D., Director, African American Studies Program, University Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston, African American Studies Program. Additionally, he is the founding editor of Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research at Transaction Publishers.