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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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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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Afro-Caribbean cults --- Rastafari movement --- Cultes afro-antillais --- Rastafarisme --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Afro-Caribbean religions
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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.
Afro-Caribbean cults --- Persecution --- Tambu (Cult) --- History --- Curaçao --- Religion.
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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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Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Afrokaribischer Kult. --- Blacks --- Blacks --- Religion. --- Religion --- Religion. --- Cuba --- Cuba. --- Kuba. --- Religion.
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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.
Philosophy, Black --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Black philosophy --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Black - West Indies --- Afro-Caribbean cults - Philosophy --- West Indies. --- Karibik. --- Westindien. --- Schwarze.
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Ifa --- Ifa (Religion) --- Ifa (Religion). --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Ifa.
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