Description: Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person.
Brief description: Jennifer Reid is a professor of religion emerita at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her books include Finding Kluskap: A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth; Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long; and Myth, Symbol and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867. She is a 2015 John Simon Memorial Foundation Fellow.
Review Quotes: Read this book in order to be reminded of the breadth and depth of Charles Long's contributions to the study of religion or . . . in order to be persuaded of Long's historical and continued relevance in the field.--Alexander Rocklin, The Journal of Religion