Description: This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Brief description: R. Marie Griffith is a professor of religion at Princeton University. She is the author or coeditor of several books, including Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: An excellent resource for students in religious studies and scholars of the various religious movements examined.
--Ida Jones, Journal of African American History