Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a

The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, h

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-rangi

This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinar

A book that encourages women to go beyond the boundaries of religion and reclaim their rights.