Incarnating Spirits, Composing Shrines, and Cooking Divine Power in "Vodún"
In this article I consider the ways in which shrine building, adornment, and the resulting experience of secrecy that emanates from shrines supports the building of new transnational networks and diasporas that are beginning to encourage a conceptual expansion of the African-Atlantic world. To achie...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Voodooism
/ Transnationaization
/ Shrine
/ Material popular culture
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Vodún
B Shrines B adornment B West Africa B Cosmology B Secrecy |
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| Summary: | In this article I consider the ways in which shrine building, adornment, and the resulting experience of secrecy that emanates from shrines supports the building of new transnational networks and diasporas that are beginning to encourage a conceptual expansion of the African-Atlantic world. To achieve this I focus on how strategic choices in ritual flexibility and experimentation in shrine-building work to support the transnationalization of religions such as Vodún as they move from space to space, and how the religion's material culture and repertoire re-localize as social and national spaces shift. In so doing, I argue that processes of secrecy, which in Vodún are typically tethered to religious objects such as shrines, encourage - instead of restrict - the global expansion of West African religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2015.1120086 |