• Our Purpose

    We document the significant Black Religious experience as sources of knowledge from the African / American diasporas. Our motivations are threefold. First, to secure, preserve and share from the rich oral, visible and historical Black religious culture. Second, to create new forms of curriculum resources for ministry to inform and enrich the wider Theological, Church and Community truth-affirming life systems. And third, to accentuate and celebrate the role that black religion has served and contributed as a catalytic agent in the protracted human struggle.

  • Our Mission

    The mission is to consciously advance cross-cultural, cross-/and inter-denominational perspectives and/or conversations which provide meaningful engagement of African American and the "Two-Third" world conditions

  • Our Vision

    The vision of RHAW is to open-up conversation and broaden praxis, beyond proto-typical, congealment and totalizing non-reflexive self, amied at ultimately transforming non\spiritualities, academic disciplines; enhancing religious, gender, and cultural diversities; and to re-energe perspectives justice and peace campaigns which intentionally target African-American communities, and purposefully benefit oppressed minorities.

  • Our Focus

    Going beyond its initial and foundational areas of focus, the RHAW INstitute redefines research in new creative ways that permit understanding of discourse. It embraces previousy disengaged subjects, and topics of the African humanity with research methods which are century-tuned, modeling for and at ITC new pedagogical trajectories in religious studies: the quint-essentials of 21st century American and global academia.

  • Agenda

    The agenda at RHAW is to engage interpretations of/about "Africa" and "Africa’s peoples," or the "Two-Thirds" world domain, and to construct projects which demonstrate the cultural diversifications, the many faces and phases of the production of perspectives; how knowledge and understanding of African worldviews are received and sustained into authorial forms in the socio-psycho-political and economic configurations of African American religious structures.

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