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Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the "spirit realm." In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

Christianity and other religions --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- African. --- Haskins, Donna. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Religious life and customs. --- African American religion. --- Boston. --- black women. --- ethnography of religion. --- lived religion. --- spirituality. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding Ifá and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.

Ifa (Religion) --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Orisha religion. --- Divination. --- Yoruba (African people) --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Orisa religion --- Shango --- Shango (Cult) --- Religions --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Art. --- Religion. --- Ifa (Religion). --- Ifa. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts Ochoa's attempts to assimilate Palo praise of the dead. As he comes to terms with a world in which everyday events and materials are composed of the dead, Ochoa discovers in Palo unexpected resources for understanding the relationship between matter and spirit, for rethinking anthropology's rendering of sorcery, and for representing the play of power in Cuban society. The first fully detailed treatment of the world of Palo, Society of the Dead draws upon recent critiques of Western metaphysics as it reveals what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic.

Palo. --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Death --- Religious aspects. --- Cuba --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion --- anthropology. --- black atlantic. --- comparative religion. --- cuba. --- cuban society. --- cultural anthropologists. --- discussion books. --- ethnic tribal. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- havana. --- kongo. --- living and dead. --- nonfiction. --- palo. --- personal account. --- popular religion. --- praise of the dead. --- quita manaquita. --- religious practices. --- religious rituals. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- sorcery. --- spiritual. --- transformation. --- tribal practices. --- western perspective. --- world religions. --- Afro-Caribbean religions