Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
2. Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head, this is God Body: The Body as a Site of Religious Expression in the Five Percenters
Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
CERCL Writing Collective [+]
Rice University
The authors of this volume are the members of Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning Writing Collective: Anthony B. Pinn, Jessica B. Davenport, Justine M. Bakker, Cleve V. Tinsley IV, Biko Mandela Gray, David A. Kline, Jason O. Jeffries, Sharde' N. Chapman and Mark A. DeYoung
Description
The second chapter, “Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head: This is God body,” suggests the body is central to, in, and for Five Percenters religion – given that Five Percenters consider the black body proof of God’s existence and central to gaining what is known in the movement as “knowledge of self”.