Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the dynamic...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Duke University Press
2021.
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| Colección: | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655374106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas
- Part I Spiritual Memories and Ancestors
- 1. Spirited Choreographies: Embodied Memories and Domestic Enslavement in Togolese Mama Tchamba Rituals
- 2. Alchemy of the Fuqara: Spiritual Care, Memory, and the Black Muslim Body
- 3. Spiritual Ethnicity: Our Collective Ancestors in Ifá and Orisha Devotion across the Americas
- Part II Community, Religious Habitus, and the Senses
- 4. Faith Full: Sensuous Habitus, Everyday Affect, and Divergent Diaspora in the UCKG
- 5. Covered Bodies, Moral Education, and the Embodiment of Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria
- 6. Embodied Worship in a Haitian Protestant Church in the Bahamas: Religious Habitus among Bahamians of Haitian Descent
- Part III Interrogating Sacredness in Performance
- 7. The Quest for Spiritual Purpose in a Secular Dance Community: Bèlè’s Rebirth in Contemporary Martinique
- 8. Embodying Black Islam: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Afro-Diasporic Muslim Hip-Hop in Britain
- 9. Secular Affective Politics in a National Dance about AIDS in Mozambique
- Part IV Religious Discipline and the Gendered and Sexual Body
- 10. Wrestling with Homosexuality: Kinesthesia as Resistance in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
- 11. Exceptional Healing: Gender, Materiality, Embodiment, and Prophetism in the Lower Congo
- 12. Dark Matter: Formations of Death Pollution in Southeastern African Funerals
- Contributors
- Index
