Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions

Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / edited by Stephan Palmié.

The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contribut...

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Main Author: Palmié, Stephan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 33.
Subjects:
Afro-Caribbean religions.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Afro-Caribbean cults
Religion
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Kontextuelle Theologie
Schwarze
Africa > Religion.
Caribbean Area > Religion.
Africa
Caribbean Area
Amerika
Subsaharisches Afrika
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié
  • On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson
  • From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury
  • Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román
  • Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz
  • Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié
  • Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal
  • Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone
  • Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman
  • African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen
  • Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.

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