Embodying Black religions in Africa and its diasporas
Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction: Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili -- Spirited choreographies : embodied memories and domestic enslavement in Togolese mama tchamba rituals...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ New religion
/ Islam
/ USA
/ Blacks
/ Religiosity
/ Embodiment
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements BJ Islam KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBQ North America KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Africa
Religious life and customs
B Religion Social aspects (Africa) B Religions African influences B Religion and culture (Africa) B African Diaspora B Africa Religion |
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| Summary: | Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction: Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili -- Spirited choreographies : embodied memories and domestic enslavement in Togolese mama tchamba rituals / Elyan Hill -- Alchemy of the fuqara : spiritual care, memory, and the Black Muslim body / Youssef Carter -- Spiritual ethnicity : our collective ancestors in Ifá devotion across the Americas / N. Fadeke Castor -- Faith full : sensuous habitus, everyday affect, and divergent diaspora in the UCKG / Rachel Cantave -- Covered bodies, moral education, and the embodiment of Islamic reform in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Embodied worship in a Haitian protestant church in the Bahamas : religious habitus among Bahamians of Haitian descent / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- The quest for spiritual purpose in a secular dance community : Bèlè's rebirth in contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- Embodying Black religion : the ethics and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic Muslim hip-hop in Britain / Jeanette S. Jouili -- Secular affective politics in a national dance about AIDS in Mozambique / Aaron Montoya -- Wrestling with homosexuality : kinesthesia as resistance in Ghanaian pentecostalism / Nathanael Homewood -- "Exceptional healing" : gender, materiality, embodiment, and prophetism in the Lower Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward -- Dark matter : formations of death pollution in southeastern African funerals / Casey Golomski. "Embodying Black Religions in African and Its Diasporas critically examines the role of the body as religiously motivated social action for people of African descent across the geographic regions of the African continent, the Caribbean and Latin America, the American South, and Europe. Tackling a variety of religious contexts, from Pentecostalism, to Ifa divination, to Islam, the contributors investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of particular social relationships and collective identities"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478010649 |