Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa

Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination

AvDianne M. Stewart

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a religious symbol and the prominence of Africana nations and religious nationalisms in projects of black belonging and identity formation, including those of Orisa mothers. Contributing to global womanist thought and activism, Yoruba-Orisa spiritual mothers disclose the fullness of the black religious imagination’s affective, hermeneutic, and political capacities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478014867

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Dianne M. Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University and author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience and Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage.

Recensioner i media

"Stewart’s volume masterfully probes African Trinidadians’ use of Yoruba identified ritual poetics and social formations. ... These two volumes will be of very great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions."- Alexander Rocklin (Nova Religio) “[A] theoretically sophisticated and intellectually stimulating publication by two of the foremost scholars of African heritage religions working in the academy today.”- Brendan Jamal Thornton (Journal of the American Academy of Religion)

Innehållsförteckning

List of Abbreviations Used in Text ixNote on Orthography and Terminology xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction to Volume II 11. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad 92. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige 523. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power 834. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition 1475. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora 221Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana 249List of Abbreviations Use in Notes 255Notes 257Bibliography 305Index 327