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"Through a variety of first-person accounts, this book offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban Lukumi̹, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian Candomble̹, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions"-- "First-person accounts that show the expanding demographics of African-descended religions In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-person accounts of the evolving Afro-Atlantic religious landscape. Spirited Diasporas offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban Lukumi̹, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian Candomble̹, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions. In these accounts, practitioners from many origins illustrate the work and commitment they undertook to learn and become initiated in these traditions. They reveal in the process a variety of experiences that are not often documented. Their perspectives also show the expanding contemporary demographics of African-descended religions, many of whose members identify as LGBTQ or are part of other minoritized populations, and they counter inaccurate and often racialized portrayals of these religions as being anti-modern and geographically limited. Through the voices of the professionals, scholars, and activists gathered here, readers will appreciate the purpose and belonging to be found in the far-reaching communities of these Latin American and Caribbean spiritualities. As the seekers in these stories discover and come home to their new religious families, Spirited Diasporas displays the relevance and generative power of these traditions."--

Black people --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Religion --- History --- Religious life and customs --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- History.

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"This book introduces and explores Asian communities in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America through literary, historical, and theoretical frameworks by bringing together the multiple cultural perspectives of an emerging field of study: the transnational field of Asians in the Americas. The new scholarship of these authors addresses familial, historical, and literary ties to Asia, while also introducing the contributions of Asians in the Americas in an interdisciplinary framework, easily accessible to students and scholars and amendable for course adoption. The subjects of these essays emphasize community by discussing identity, religion, culture, public health, business, language, film, and literature. They imagine the homeland and the possibilities that life in the country of residence holds. This volume seeks to understand the historically collapsed notion of Asians in the Americas, wherein Asian identity has been strategically invoked within rigid confines for political and ideological perspectives. Through a comparative framework, Imagining Asia in the Americas moves past research models that consider the immigrant as a static subject that cuts his ties with the homeland and immerses himself in a new identity specifically linked to the host country. Instead, they introduce new approaches to examine the intersections of the past and present in community formation as it is linked to the homeland as well as the resident country"--Provided by publisher.

Community life --- Transnationalism --- Immigrants --- Asians --- Public opinion --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Asia --- America --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Foreign public opinion, Latin American. --- Foreign public opinion, Caribbean. --- Foreign public opinion, American. --- Relations --- S02/0200 --- S02/0300 --- S11/1120 --- S11/1130 --- Social conditions --- China: General works--Civilization and culture, nation, nationalism --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: Social sciences--Migration and emigration: U.S.A. and Canada (incl. Hawaï) (whatever period) --- China: Social sciences--Migration and emigration: Central and South America (whatever period) --- asian, asia, china, korea, japan, chinese, ancestry, asian american, immigrant, chinese american, japanese american, korean american, south america, caribbean, central america, identity, culture, heritage, asian community.