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The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing “Africa” and “African pasts” as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of “Africanity” and “pastfulness” play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume’s goal is to open up contextually salient claims to “African origins” to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies.

Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Africa --- Caribbean Area --- Religion. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral

Homosexuality --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Homosexuality (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religious aspects. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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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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Yoruba (African people) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- African Americans --- Yorouba (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Cultes afro-antillais --- Noirs américains --- Religion --- Race identity --- Identité ethnique --- United States --- Civilization --- African influences --- Religious life and customs --- Noirs américains --- Identité ethnique --- Yoruba (African people) - United States - Religion --- United States - Civilization - African influences --- United States - Religious life and customs --- Afro-Caribbean religions

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Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.

Afro-Caribbean cults --- Sacred space --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Holguín (Cuba : Province) --- Oriente (Cuba : Province) --- Religious life and customs. --- Afro-Caribbean religions