Excellent Excerpts: Nursing the Spirit by Don Grant
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers by Don Grant, published May 2023 with Columbia University Press. You can learn more about Don in […]
Excellent Excerpts: The Gut by Elizabeth Perez
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published with Cambridge University Press. Book Synopsis: If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking […]
Excellent Excerpts: An Ethos of Blackness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie, published September 2023 with Columbia University Press. You can learn more about Vivaldi in our interview […]
Excellent Excerpts: Rebuilding Community by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji, published July 2023 with Oxford University Press. From the Introduction [Atlanta, […]
Excellent Excerpts: Vodou en Vogue by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, out June 2023, University of North Carolina Press. From the Preface This […]
Excellent Excerpts: Gendered Fortunes by Zeynep K. Korkman
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey by Zeynep K. Korkman, out April 21, 2023, Duke University Press. Book Synopsis: In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s […]