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Theophus Smith is among a growing number of scholars interested in Black Atlantic forms of religion and spirituality, a literary representation of which we considered in chapter 3. He situates his book Conjuring Culture (1994) "between the historical and social scientific study of religion on the one hand, and the black theology of liberation movement on the other."¹ In this chapter, I read Smith's distinctive project on its own terms but also in relation to Long's programmatic challenge for the study of African American religion, West's prophetic construction of black religiosity, and Jones' critique of black theodicy.

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118713_7

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