TY - BOOK ID - 118423827 TI - Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. : Africans in the white colonial imagination PY - 2022 SN - 1478092785 1478022140 1478013915 1478014857 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Obeah (Cult) KW - Religion and sociology KW - Religions KW - Black people KW - Cults KW - Religion and law KW - Postcolonialism KW - History. KW - African influences. KW - Religion KW - Law and legislation KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Law KW - Law and religion KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Sects KW - Black persons KW - Blacks KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Roots (Cult) KW - Witchcraft KW - Religious aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118423827 AB - "Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of "Obeah." A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad."-- ER -