The Gumbé is a drum whose beats call some West African and Africa diaspora communities together to announce important developments.
SCRIPTURALIZATION: A PRIMER
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HTI/OP Podcast: The work of ISS and its 20th anniversary
In this episode of OP Talks, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo talks to fellow religion professor Dr. Vincent Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The organization’s upcoming annual conference in Atlanta—to be held April 11-13, 2024 […]
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An Interview with Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at UCLA
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is Professor Emeritus, former Chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, and former Director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Professor DjeDje is author, editor, and compiler of several books, collections of essays, and recordings, a few of which include Fiddling in West […]
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HTI/OP Podcast: The work of ISS and its 20th anniversary
In this episode of OP Talks, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo talks to fellow religion professor Dr. Vincent Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The organization’s upcoming annual conference in Atlanta—to be held April 11-13, 2024 […]
FROM THE ABENG
The Abeng – A Journal of Transdisciplinary Criticism – Inaugural Issue
Inaugural Issue – November, 2014 Once admiringly acknowledged, in the words of a Xhosa praise, as NguZanengxaki (“Bringer of Problems”), Charles H. Long’s work over the last fifty years has significantly explored and expanded the boundaries of the History of Religions. Born in Little Rock, […]