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The word "possession" is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things - via slavery - and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped - and continue to shape - the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things - including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph - as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world. -- from back cover.

Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Spirit possession --- Blacks --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Blacks --- Spirit possession. --- Afrokaribischer Kult. --- Besessenheit. --- Religion --- Religion. --- Latin America.

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Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been more acutely relevant than in our own historical moment. In the wake of 9/11 and other acts of religious violence, we see the rise of invasive national security states that target religious minorities and pose profound challenges to the ideals of privacy and religious freedom, accompanied by the resistance by many communities to such efforts. As such, questions of secrecy, privacy, surveillance, and security are among the most central and contested issues of twenty-first century religious life. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is the definitive reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks Secrecy as Religious Practice Secrecy and the Politics of the Present Secrecy and Social Resistance Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance. This cutting-edge volume discusses secrecy in relation to major categories of religious experience and individual religious practices while also examining the transformations of secrecy in the modern period, including the rise of fraternal orders, the ongoing wars on terror, the rise of far-right white supremacist groups, increasing concerns over religious freedom and privacy, the role of the internet in the spread and surveillance of such groups, and the resistance to surveillance by many indigenous and diasporic communities. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements, and religion and politics. It will be equally central to debates in the related disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, security studies and cultural studies.

Secrecy --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects

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A comprehensive look at the development, beliefs, and practices of Candomblé, exploring its transformation from a secret society of slaves - hidden, persecuted, and marginalized - to a public religion that is very much part of Brazilian culture.

Candomble (Religion) --- Secrecy. --- 299.6*8 --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Candomblé (Cult) --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil --- 299.6*8 Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil. --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Secrecy --- religion --- Brazil --- Candomblé --- study of religion --- syncretism --- Afro-Brazilian indigenous religions --- Brazilian society --- nationalism --- Brazilian culture --- slavery --- secret societies --- Voudu --- Santeria --- ritual practices --- national identity --- religion and society

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