Dancing at "the People's Beach": Spontaneous Dialogue in the New York Sands
Scholars of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue have largely ignored religions of African derivation in the Americas, such as Candomblé, Vodou, and Santería. This essay contributes to a resultant lacunae in the academic literature in these fields by using ethnography and performance theory (approa...
| Published in: | Journal of ecumenical studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of ecumenical studies
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| RelBib Classification: | BB Indigenous religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnography
B Public Sphere B ecumenicism B Postsecularism B Lucumi B Santeria B Interreligious B Vodou B Secularism |
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| Summary: | Scholars of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue have largely ignored religions of African derivation in the Americas, such as Candomblé, Vodou, and Santería. This essay contributes to a resultant lacunae in the academic literature in these fields by using ethnography and performance theory (approaches that are also largely unknown in said fields) to illustrate the function of a spontaneous interreligious dialogue on a New York beach between Haitian Vodouists and Freemasons, one that effectively enhanced interfaith understanding on the popular level, as witnessed by a Lucumí priestess and scholar. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2020.0033 |