Pew Research on Religion

A Boston Review article by Panashe Chigumadzi and Cornel West on the 1970s debate about Black Diasporic Theology and African Theology.

Spiritual innovation, to me, is the practice of recreating our relationship with our ancestry and our shared divinity, particularly during times of political upheaval.

This article looks at how Sufism is abstracted from its intricate and ancient Islamic roots to be the ‘good Islam’, palatable to New Age spiritualists and Western audiences.