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  • - Transcorporeality in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou
    av Roberto Strongman
    292 - 1 111,-

    Roberto Strongman examines three Afro-diasporic religions-Hatian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble-to demonstrate how the commingling of humans and the divine during trance possession produce subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex.

  • av Abiodun Alao
    292,-

    Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in post-independence Nigeria, locating it in the forced coming together of disparate ethnic groups under colonial rule.

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    318,-

    The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of social relationships and collective identities throughout the Black diaspora.

  • - The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality
    av Todne Thomas
    394 - 1 111,-

    Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals and the ways the create spiritual relationships through the practice of kincraft-the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, partners in prayer, and spiritual mothers, fathers, and children.

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    1 163,-

    The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of social relationships and collective identities throughout the Black diaspora.

  • - Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
    av Christopher Tounsel
    279 - 1 111,-

    Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan from the early twentieth century to the present.

  • - Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes
     
    305,-

    The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century, tracing the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban African spaces.

  • - Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora
     
    279,-

    The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.

  • - Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora
     
    1 111,-

    The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.

  • - Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa
    av Laura S. Grillo
    292 - 1 111,-

    In this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers.

  • - Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
     
    1 163,-

    The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and mortuary rituals across the Caribbean, showing how racial, cultural and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean.

  • - Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
     
    305,-

    The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and mortuary rituals across the Caribbean, showing how racial, cultural and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean.

  • - Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
    av Joseph R. Winters
    303 - 1 163,-

    In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history.

  • - Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
    av Yolanda Covington-Ward
    305 - 1 163,-

    In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.

  • - The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
    av Jalane D. Schmidt
    318 - 1 163,-

    Jalane D. Schmidt shows how the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, discovered in 1612 and known as Cachita, is a potent and contested symbol of Cuban national identity. She analyzes the five times over the last eighty years Cachita has been celebrated in Cuba's urban streets.

  • av Olufemi Vaughan
    305 - 1 163,-

    In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria.

  • - Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes
     
    1 163,-

    The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century, tracing the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban African spaces.

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