The Gumbé is a drum whose beats call some West African and Africa diaspora communities together to announce important developments.

SCRIPTURALIZATION: A PRIMER

May 6, 2026

ISS Director Sees Recent Supreme Court Decision on Voting Rights Act as Example of Violent Scriptural Politics

I felt a strong need to share these brief sentiments and reflections with you. This Supreme Court decision I find to be so harmful and violent that I could hardly sleep last night. As Brown v Board of 1954 and the Voting Rights Acts of […]

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ISS Director Sees Recent Supreme Court Decision on Voting Rights Act as Example of Violent Scriptural Politics

I felt a strong need to share these brief sentiments and reflections with you. This Supreme Court decision I find to be so harmful and violent that I could hardly sleep last night. As Brown v Board of 1954 and the Voting Rights Acts of […]

INTERVIEWS

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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ISS Director Sees Recent Supreme Court Decision on Voting Rights Act as Example of Violent Scriptural Politics

I felt a strong need to share these brief sentiments and reflections with you. This Supreme Court decision I find to be so harmful and violent that I could hardly sleep last night. As Brown v Board of 1954 and the Voting Rights Acts of […]

FROM THE ABENG

American Bible: The Constitution as Sacred Text

Join us at a live in-person event at Judson Memorial Church at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, for a timely discussion on the role religion has played in shaping originalist thought, as well as alternative approaches to understanding the Constitution and our relationship to […]

The Abeng 2024-supplement 1

The Abeng | vol 5, no 1

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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, […]