Scholars Possessed! On Writing Africana Religions with the Left Hand

Consequential categories like “Africana religions” emerge from a calibration of religious practices with ethnographic writing practices. Attending to the processes of writing Africana religions warrants close attention because it is mostly through such second-order representations that “Africana rel...

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Main Author: Johnson, Paul Christopher 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2016]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 154-185
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Religion / Depiction / Possession / Scientist / History 1900-2000
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AF Geography of religion
BS Traditional African religions
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NBE Anthropology
NBH Angelology; demonology
TK Recent history
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