Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. The volume features twenty-six essays by a diverse group of students and scholars of Long. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas. In doing so they wrestle with the foundations of the study of religion that emerged out of the European Enlightenment, they engage the discipline's entrenchment in the conquest of the Americas, and they grapple with the field's legacy of colonialism. The book demonstrates tremendous breadth and depth of scope in its skillful comparative work on colonialism, which links the religions of the Americas, Melanesia, and Africa. This seminal work is an important addition to the Religions of the Americas Series and a valuable contribution to the field to which Charles H. Long was for so long devoted.

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Introduction: Orienting Ourselves by Jennifer Reid
Part 1. Religious Imagination of Matter: Topographies of Method
Chapter 1. Mapping Oceans: Charles H. Long, Colonialism, and the Study of Religion by David Chidester
Chapter 2. Long Contact with Significations by Jay Geller
Chapter 3. Indigeneity: The Work of History of Religions and Charles H. Long by Philip P. Arnold
Chapter 4. Seeking an Interpretive Center in the Study of Religion by Randal Cummings
Chapter 5. After Fetishism: The Study of Religion in the Age of the Commodity by Tatsuo Murakami
Chapter 6. About Cargo and the Melanesians by Garry W. Trompf
Chapter 7. “With This Root about My Person, No White Man Could Whip Me”: Charles H. Long as Intellectual Rootworker in Africana Religious Studies by Tracey Elaine Hucks
Part 2. Religion, Worlds, and Order
Chapter 8. Opacity in Native American Visions by Lisa Poirier
Chapter 9. Religion aand the Revolution in the Life and Work of Louis Riel by Jennifer Reid
Chapter 10. American Civil Religion: The Gift and the Economy of Revolutionary Freedom by Carole Lynn Stewart
Chapter 11. “Fired in the Crucible of Oppression”: Toward a Theology of Spiritual Freedom by Raymond Carr
Chapter 12. Aesthetically Analyzing the Transactional Moment: The Involuntary Presence as the Grotesque by Jeania Ree V. Moore
Chapter 13. Civil Religion in America: When the “Empirical Other” is Us by Karen E. Fields
Chapter 14. The “Donation” of King James: Misreadings of the Black Atlantic by Vincent L. Wimbush
Part 3. Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas
Chapter 15. Thus Spoke Ọrunmila: Ifa Hermeneutics, Education, and African Cultural Renaissance by Jacob Olupona
Chapter 16. The Fetish and Charles Long’s Theory of Contact and Exchange by Sylvester A. Johnson
Chapter 17. Charles H. Long—Intellectual Godfather: African Atlantic Research Team and Cuba’s Distinct Religions by Jualynne E. Dodson
Chapter 18. The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia: Resources of Art and Literature for the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religion by Rachel Elizabeth Harding
Chapter 19. Contact/Exchange in Charles H. Long’s Thought and the “Concealed” Spatial: Sexual Dimension of Black Embodiment by James A. Noel
Chapter 20. Contested Hermeneutical Aims in Theologies Opaque by Victor Anderson
Chapter 21. No Other God: The Theological Crisis of American Life by Matthew Johnson
Part 4. The Chicago Tradition, Charles H. Long, and the History of Religions
Chapter 22. Yes, There Is (or Was) a Chicago School of History of Religions by Nancy Falk
Chapter 23. An Arche of His Own: Charles H. Long as Consummate and Constant Teacher by Lindsay Jones
Chapter 24. The Chicago School: An Academic Mode of Being by Charles H. Long
Chapter 25. Codex Charles Long: The Scholar Who Traveled to Many Places to Understand Others by Davíd Carrasco
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