Toward an Inventory of Influence: Biography and Belonging in Sustained Dialogue with Black Atlantic Religion

This article assesses the empirical and conceptual contributions of J. Lorand Matory's Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (BAR) and of his first monograph, Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor i...

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Main Author: Pérez, Elizabeth 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2018
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 104-113
Review of:Black Atlantic religion (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005) (Pérez, Elizabeth)
Sex and the empire that is no more (Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1994) (Pérez, Elizabeth)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Latin America / Diaspora (social sciences) (Social sciences) / Ethnohistory / Science of Religion
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AF Geography of religion
AZ New religious movements
BS Traditional African religions
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBR Latin America
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:This article assesses the empirical and conceptual contributions of J. Lorand Matory's Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (BAR) and of his first monograph, Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in ?y?-Yoruba Religion. The bearing of these texts on subsequent research in Afro-diasporic traditions is explored through an autoethnographic account that emphasizes the demand for a post-Eliadean style of comparativism, the disciplining function of the university, and social positionality as a condition for influence to manifest. The combination of these factors supports Matory's thesis in the present issue of this journal concerning the interplay of biography and belonging in the critical reception of BAR. The article concludes by asserting the inadequacy of debt (along with other economic metaphors) for the expression of intellectual impact, and casts the act of criticism as externalizing an intimate internal dialogical process.
ISSN:2165-5413
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions