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Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Inbunden, 2015
1325 kr
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Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, …
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Häftad, 2015
442 kr
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Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, …
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Inbunden, 2015
1577 kr
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In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of …
Gesture and Power
Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Häftad, 2015
385 kr
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In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of …
Hope Draped in Black
Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
Inbunden, 2016
1592 kr
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In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions-like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election-gloss over the history of racial violence and …
Hope Draped in Black
Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
Häftad, 2016
385 kr
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In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions-like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election-gloss over the history of racial violence and …
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Inbunden, 2016
1577 kr
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In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist …
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Häftad, 2016
385 kr
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In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist …
Spirit on the Move
Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora
Av Judith Casselberry, Elizabeth A. Pritchard
Inbunden, 2019
1437 kr
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Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black …
Passages and Afterworlds
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Häftad, 2018
397 kr
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The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies …
Passages and Afterworlds
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Inbunden, 2018
1624 kr
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The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies …
Spirit on the Move
Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora
Av Judith Casselberry, Elizabeth A. Pritchard
Häftad, 2019
343 kr
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Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black …
Intimate Rebuke
Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa
Inbunden, 2018
1280 kr
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Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women-the Mothers-make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and …
Intimate Rebuke
Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa
Häftad, 2018
389 kr
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Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women-the Mothers-make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and …
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Inbunden, 2019
1156 kr
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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban LucumÍ/SanterÍa, and Brazilian CandomblÉ to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and …
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Häftad, 2019
301 kr
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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban LucumÍ/SanterÍa, and Brazilian CandomblÉ to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and …
Affective Trajectories
Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes
Av Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1577 kr
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The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad …
Affective Trajectories
Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes
Av Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad …
Chosen Peoples
Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
Inbunden, 2021
1156 kr
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On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and …
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Av Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jeanette S. Jouili
Inbunden, 2021
557 kr
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The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the …
Kincraft
The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality
Av Todne Thomas
Inbunden, 2021
1156 kr
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In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the “Black Church” with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Drawing on fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church …
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Av Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jeanette S. Jouili
Häftad, 2021
329 kr
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The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the …
Chosen Peoples
Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
Häftad, 2021
287 kr
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On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and …
Kincraft
The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality
Av Todne Thomas
Häftad, 2021
301 kr
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In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the “Black Church” with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Drawing on fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church …
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah
Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Inbunden, 2022
1128 kr
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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 …
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa
Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination
Inbunden, 2022
1184 kr
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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 …
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah
Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Häftad, 2022
287 kr
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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 …
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa
Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination
Häftad, 2022
315 kr
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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 …
Art As Sanctuary
Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic
Av Michael D. Harris, Dianne M. Stewart m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1451 kr
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In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the Black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal, and cultural celebration. Harris offers an alternative framework to the Duboisian philosophy of …
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God
Religious Violence in Nigeria
Av Abiodun Alao
Inbunden, 2022
1184 kr
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In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God, Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in postindependence Nigeria, where Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions have all been associated with violence. He investigates the root causes and historical evolution of …
