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The Collected Writings of Charles H. Long: Ellipsis

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, 2018
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Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures, an interview, and two book reviews. The foreword is provided by Jennifer Reid, a former student of Long. The collection is divided into four thematic parts: America and the Study of Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; African American Religion in the United States; Kindling, Embers and Sparks.

Long's introduction provides much-awaited insight into his reflections on his work, expanding on questions that remained unanswered in his classic and influential text, Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Images (1986). In particular, the new introductory essay explores the significance of “ellipses”, that which is omitted, the projected spaces of the Other in the study of religion.

Considered the preeminent founder and advocate of the study of Black Religion, Long was exploring religion and colonialism and the importance of Afro-American religion as early as the 1960s and early 1970s, and this collection of his thinking – which moves across the formations of religious studies, African diasporic studies, and social and cultural theory – is a must-have addition for any institutional or personal library.

The definitive collection of the work of one of the most influential religion scholars of the past 50 years, Charles H. Long.

The definitive collection of the work of one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years
Contains a new foreword and introduction by Charles H. Long, as well as lesser-known essays alongside texts regarded classics
Relevant to a number of disciplines, including religious studies, African American studies, history, literary studies

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: America and the Study of Religion
1. America, Religious Interpretations of
2. New Orleans as an American City: Origins, Exchanges, Materialities, and Religion
Part Two: Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
3. The Study of Religion in the United States of America: Its Past and Its Future
4. Mentalities , Myths, and Religion
5. Encountering Wach: Hermeneutics, Religious Experience, and America
6. Introduction, written by Professors William Clebsch and Charles H. Long to the Reprint of Morris Jastrow, Jr's The Study of Religion
7. A Look at the Chicago Tradition in the History of Religions: Retrospect and Future
8. The Chicago School: An Academic Mode of Being
9. The University, the Liberal Arts, and the Teaching and Study of Religion
10. Mircea Eliade and the Imagination of Matter
11. Popular Religion
12. Transculturation and Religion
13. The Religious Implications of the Situation of Cultural Contact
14. New Space, New Time: Disjunctions and Context for a New World Religion
15. Religion, Discourse and Hermeneutics: New Approaches to the Study of Religion
Part Three: African American Religion in the United States
16. African American Religion in the United States of America: An Interpretive Essay
17. Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in The United States of America
18. Rapporteur's Commentary
19. What Is Africa to me?: Reflection, Discernment, and Anticipation
20. Bodies in Time and the Healing of Spaces: Religion, Temporalities, And Health
Part Four: Kindling, Embers and Sparks
21. Passage and Prayer: The Origin of Religion in the Atlantic World
22. Outline for Continuing Research For Understanding of Religion and its Study
23. From Colonialism to Community, Religion and Culture in Charles H. Long's Significations
24. Charles H. Long Interviewed by David Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, The Peabody Museum and the Harvard Divinity School
25. The Humanities and 'Other' Humans
26. History, Religion and the Future
27. Enlightenment, Ancestors, and Primordiality: A note on Modernity and Memory
28. Encounters with Korean Ancestors: Rituals, Dreams, and Stories
29. The West African High God: History and Religious Experience
30. Primitive/Civilised: The Axial Age in a World Context
31. Theodicy as/and and Modernity: Comments on Mark M. S. Scott's paper, Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion.
32. Religion and Mythology: A Critical Review of Some Recent Discussions
33. Book review - Other Times, Other Places: Myths and Cities in Meso-American Religion
34. Book review - The Dreams of Professor Campbell: Joseph Campbell's The Mythic Image
35. The Gift of Speech and the Travail of Language
36. Introduction to the Wesleyan University Edition of Henri Baudet's Paradise on Earth
37. How I Changed my Mind or Not
Index

Those less familiar with Long's work will find The Collected Works of Charles Long to be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate classes within American Religious History, Religious Studies, or African American Religious History.

Throughout these thirty-eight essays (some unpublished), Long moves effortlessly from textured historical narrative to hermeneutics and back again, all in his unique voice. Simply put, this book is absolutely essential for anyone with a serious interest in questions of method and theory or the history of the discipline.

A wonderfully complex, yet accessible, compendium of his own writings ... Long welcomes and engages the reader right from the start through a warm narrative that opens the book ... Fascinating and impressive ... [It] should earn an important place in the field of religious studies. The breadth of Long's knowledge about American religion and the readability of the text lends itself to becoming a volume of lasting importance.

This publication brings forth some of the best and most powerful thought and writing by the great innovator Charles H. Long. It combines turning points, immersions and illuminations that make up the history of the history of religions à la Charles H. Long. It fulfils a promise Long made years ago to his students that he would give us a lively record of his ingenuity, commitments and insights. A gift!

This is the book I have been waiting for from Charles H. Long. In one volume, the reader is treated to the seminal work of Long over the course of his lengthy academic career as a historian of religion. Long's probing insights, the power of his imagery, his careful and persistent mining of fundamental questions to the drama of religion in human lives lays bare the rich terrain of human lives that are often obscured and unheeded. Long encourages us to expand our horizons as we mine the depths of our humanity.

This is the book for which academics have long waited-the collected writings of a beloved scholar who has inspired generations in the critical interpretation of religion, race, and the modern world. The theoretical insights of Charles H. Long's capacious intellect adorn every page of this text. Long is an intellectual reckoning made flesh, and he has now bequeathed to readers a legacy of brilliance in long-form.

Charles H. Long is the veritable African-American doyen of critical Religious Studies. This well-selected collection wonderfully illustrates his intellectual strengths, showing how he has always been prepared to address even the hardest questions and also the grounding of his illustrious career in the University of Chicago. These essays reveal Long in his ceaseless quest to understand humanity's religious meanings, his common provocations about the troublesome expansion of 'civilizing' Europeans and its implications, as well as his continuing appreciation of Chicago.

It has been a long time coming for scholars to take up this serious effort in all of its depth, variety, and splendour in forging an elliptical thinking inspired by the thought of Charles H. Long.

Charles H. Long was Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He was the author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (1986). Over a long career, Long held professorial positions at the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and Syracuse University. In addition, he served as a visiting professor at Tsukuba University in Japan, the University of Queensland in Australia, and Capetown University in South Africa.

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