This small book has the power to transform your life if for no other reason than it contains reflections and resources to help you access and activate the single most powerful force for change on earth: love. We are faced with innumerable choices each day and the most important is how we will start the day.When we choose to enter with compassion-first, for ourselves, then, for others-we set ourselves up for success. The Self-Compassion Companion offers thirty daily affirma...

Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, soc...

Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies, and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and crisscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import of such work.Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, this volume enacts creative transdisciplinary interve...