Towards a Transformed World: A Path to Repairing Slavery’s Spiritual Harms

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1. Frontmatter I
2. The Primacy of Ethics V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Contents IX
5. About the Authors XI
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Understanding Harms of Inhumanity
8. Understanding and Addressing Harms of Inhumanity: Mogobe Bernard Ramose and Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Ubuntu 9
9. Spiritual Harm and Enslavement 35
10. Massive Traumas, their Societal and Political Consequences, and Collective Healing 63
11. Meditations on the Dead, the Dying and the Displaced: Theorizing Structural Anti-blackness as the Root Cause of Africa’s “Forever Wars” 81
12. Part II: Pathways to Collective Healing
13. Towards a Transformed World: A Path to Repairing Slavery’s Spiritual Harms 109
14. Remember Your Mother: A Spiritual Path to Healing Ancestral Wounds of Slavery 139
15. The Scars of Enslavement and Remembering as a Journey towards Healing: African-derived Religions in America as Sites of Memory 163
16. Healing Within and Healing Between 181
17. Part III: Practices of Healing, Justice and Flourishing
18. A Story of Richmond, Virginia: Its Southern Origins and Black Tenacity 207
19. Healing Spiritual Harm: An Intergenerational Approach 231
20. Collective Healing and Transformation from a Dehumanizing Past through Personal Dialogue: The Keti Koti Table Dialogue Method 261
21. Common Ground Program and the Collective Healing Circle: A Symbiotic Approach 283
22. Conclusions 313