Introduction
Jennifer Reid
Part One. Religious Imagination of Matter: Topographies of Method
Chapter One. Mapping Oceans: Charles H. Long, Colonialism, and the Study of Religion
David Chidester
Chapter Two. Long Contact with Significations
Jay Geller
Chapter Three. Indigeneity: The Work of History of Religions and Charles H. Long
Philip P. Arnold
Chapter Four. Seeking an Interpretive Center in the Study of Religion
Randal Cummings
Chapter Five. After Fetishism: The Study of Religion in the Age of the Commodity
Tatsuo Murakami
Chapter Six. About Cargo and the Melanesians
Garry W. Trompf
Chapter Seven. "With This Root about My Person, No White Man Could Whip Me": Charles H. Long as Intellectual Rootworker in Africana Religious Studies
Tracey Elaine Hucks
Part Two. Religion, Worlds, and Order
Chapter Eight. Opacity in Native American Visions
Lisa Poirier
Chapter Nine. Religion and Revolution in the Life and Work of Louis Riel
Jennifer Reid
Chapter Ten. American Civil Religion: The Gift and the Economy of Revolutionary Freedom
Carole Lynn Stewart
Chapter Eleven. "Fired in the Crucible of Oppression": Toward a Theology of Spiritual Freedom
Raymond Carr
Chapter Twelve. Aesthetically Analyzing the Transactional Moment: The Involuntary Presence as the Grotesque
Jeania Ree V. Moore
Chapter Thirteen. Civil Religion in America: When the "Empirical Other" is Us
Karen E. Fields
Chapter Fourteen. The "Donation" of King James: Misreadings of the Black Atlantic
Vincent L. Wimbush
Part Three. Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas
Chapter Fifteen. Thus Spoke Ọrunmila: Ifa Hermeneutics, Education, and African Cultural Renaissance
Jacob Olupona
Chapter Sixteen. The Fetish and Charles Long's Theory of Contact and Exchange
Sylvester A. Johnson
Chapter Seventeen. Charles H. Long--Intellectual Godfather: African Atlantic Research Team and Cuba's Distinct Religions
Jualynne E. Dodson
Chapter Eighteen. The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia: Resources of Art and Literature for the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religion
Rachel Elizabeth Harding
Chapter Nineteen. Contact/Exchange in Charles H. Long's Thought and the "Concealed" Spatial/Sexual Dimension of Black Embodiment
James A. Noel
Chapter Twenty. Contested Hermeneutical Aims in Theologies Opaque
Victor Anderson
Chapter Twenty-One. No Other God: The Theological Crisis of American Life
Matthew Johnson
Part Four. The Chicago Tradition, Charles H. Long, and the History of Religions
Chapter Twenty-Two. Yes, There Is (or Was) a Chicago School of History of Religions
Nancy Falk
Chapter Twenty-Three. An Arche of His Own: Charles H. Long as Consummate and Constant Teacher
Lindsay Jones
Chapter Twenty-Four. The Chicago School: An Academic Mode of Being
Charles H. Long
Chapter Twenty-Five. Codex Charles Long: The Scholar Who Traveled to Many Places to Understand Others
Davíd Carrasco
Bibliography
Index