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Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions
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ISBN: 1283060647 9786613060648 9047432703 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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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.

Queering creole spiritual traditions
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ISBN: 1315783878 1317712811 131771282X 9781317712817 1560233508 9781560233503 1560233516 9781560233510 9781317712824 9781315783871 9781317712800 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York

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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

Three eyes for the journey : African dimensions of the Jamaican religious experience
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ISBN: 0195175573 0195154150 9780195154153 9780195175578 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Creole religions of the Caribbean : an introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo
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ISBN: 9780814762288 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices--is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the region. From Vodou, Santería, Regla de Palo, the Abakuá Secret Society, and Obeah to Quimbois and Espiritismo, the volume traces the historical-cultural origins of the major Creole religions, as well as the newer traditions such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism. This second edition updates the scholarship on the religions themselves and also expands the regional considerations of the Diaspora to the U.S. Latino community who are influenced by Creole spiritual practices. Fernández Olmos and Paravisini-Gebert also take into account the increased significance of material culture--art, music, literature--and healing practices influenced by Creole religions. -- Product Description.


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Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews
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ISBN: 0333637771 Year: 1995 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : The Hague : Macmillan ; In association with the Institute of Social Studies,

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Tambu : de legale en kerkelijke repressie van Afro-Curaçaose volksuitingen.
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ISBN: 9060119878 Year: 1997 Publisher: Zutphen Walburg pers

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"Informative dissertation looks at formal and informal repression of Tambu and consequences of this repression for Afro-Antillan cultural life. The repression provoked open and hidden rebellion, and changed the character of Tambu; yet Tambu was never completely eliminated on Curaçao. Includes one-page, poorly translated summaries in English and also Papiamentu. Careful editing would have enhanced the readability of this study"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.


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Spirited things : the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions
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ISBN: 9780226122625 022612262X 9780226122762 022612276X Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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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.


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The cooking of history : how not to study Afro-Cuban religion
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ISBN: 9780226019420 022601942X 9780226019567 022601956X Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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Caliban's reason : introducing Afro-Caribean philosophy
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ISBN: 1135958815 1280406984 0203900103 9780203900109 9780415926454 0415926459 9780415926461 0415926467 9781280406980 0415926459 0415926467 9786610406982 6610406987 9781135958817 9781135958763 9781135958800 1135958807 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe.


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A recitation of Ifa, oracle of the Yoruba
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ISBN: 0670590657 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York : Grossman Publishers,

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