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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.

Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Cultes afro-caribéens.

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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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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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With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding Ifá and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.

Ifa (Religion) --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Orisha religion. --- Divination. --- Yoruba (African people) --- Fa (Religion) --- Ifa --- Ifa (Cult) --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Cults --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Orisa religion --- Shango --- Shango (Cult) --- Religions --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Art. --- Religion. --- Ifa (Religion). --- Ifa. --- Afro-Caribbean religions.