To Battle for Human Rights: Afro-Creole Spiritualism and Martyrdom
From 1858 to 1877 a group of Afro-Creole men in New Orleans practiced American Spiritualism and received messages from the spirit world. The spirits of the dead advised the Cercle Harmonique, as they called themselves, on issues of theology and politics. Though the Spiritualism practiced by the Cerc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2018
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-189 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cercle Harmonique
/ Blacks
/ Spirituality
/ Martyr
/ Veneration
/ Civil rights movement
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America KCD Hagiography; saints NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics RC Liturgy TJ Modern history |
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