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2. Afro-Cuban religions
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Barnet,Miguel (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Princeton Kingston: Markus Wiener Publishers Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 160 p.
3. Christianity in the Caribbean: essays on church history
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lampe,Armando (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- A collection of essays on the history of Christianity and the role of the Church in the processes of colonization and decolonization in the Caribbean. The work is a cross-cultural study of the Church and society in the Dutch, Spanish, French and English Caribbean. It looks at the relationships that existed among slavery, colonialism and Catholicism, Christianity and decolonization, and the church and military dictatorships. Contents: The beginnings of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean / Johannes Meier -- Protestantism and slavery in the British Caribbean / Keith Hunte -- Christianity and slavery in the Dutch Caribbean / Armando Lampe -- The Catholic Church and the state in Haiti, 1804-1915 / Laënnec Hurbon -- The Catholic Church and the state in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1960 / William Wipfler -- Protestantism in Cuba, 1868-1968 / Theo Tschuy
4. Igreja do Rosário dos Pretos do Pelourinhos: um clamor com axé - identidade negra e inculturação afro-brasileira na Igreja do Rosário dos Pretos
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pereira,Taynar (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- São Paulo
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 120 p., The black identity of the church and culture.
5. Oṣun across the waters: a Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murphy,Joseph M. (Author), Sanford,Mei-Mei (Author), and Joseph M. Murphy & Mei-Mei Sanford,editors. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 274 p, Contents: Hidden power / Ọ̀ṣun the seventeenth Odú / Rowland Abiodun -- A river of many Tunns: polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban tradition / Isabel Castellanos -- Òrìṣà Ọ̀ṣun: Yoruba sacred kingship and civil religion in Òṣogbo, Nigeria / Jacob K. Olupona -- Nesta cidade todo mundo é d'Oxum: in this city everyone is Oxum's / Ieda Machado Ribeiro dos Santos -- Mãe Menininha / Manuel Vega -- Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban mirror / Joseph M. Murphy -- Osun and brass: an insight into Yoruba religious symbology / Cornelius O. Adepegba -- Overflowing with beauty: the Ochún alter in Lucumí aesthetic tradition / Ysamur Flores-Pẽna -- Authority and discourse in the Orin Ọdún Ọ̀ṣun / Diedre L. Badejo -- The bag of wisdom: Ọ̀ṣun and the origins of the Ifá divination / ʼWande Abimbola -- Ochun in the Bronx / George Brandon -- "What part of the river you're in": African American women in devotion to Òsun / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- Ẹẹ́rìndínlógún: the seeing eyes of sacred shells and stones / David O. Ogungbile -- Mama Oxum: reflections of gender and sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda / Lindasy Hale -- An Oxum shelters children in São Paulo / Tânia Cypriano -- Living water: Ọ̀ṣun, Mami Wata, and Olókùn in the lives of four contemporary Nigerian Christian women / Mei-Mei Sandford -- Orchestrating water and the wind: Oshun's art in Atlantic context / Robert Farris Thompson
6. Reinventing religions: syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Greenfield,Sidney M. (Author) and Droogers,A. F. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 232 p, Contents: Recovering and reconstructing syncretism / André Droogers, Sidney M. Greenfield -- A Yoruba healer as syncretic specialist: herbalism, rosicrucianism and the Babalawo / Frank A. Salamon -- Population growth, industrialization and the proliferation of syncretized religions in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Ethnicity, purity, the market and syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cults / Roberto Motta -- Religious syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian cult house / Sergio F. Ferretti -- The presence of non-African spirits in an Afro-Brazilian religion: a case of Afro-Amerindian syncretism? / Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti -- The reinterpretation of Africa: convergence and syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Possession and syncretism: spirits as mediators in modernity / Inger Sjørslev -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers -- Ragga cowboys: country and western themes in Rastafarian-inspired Reggae music / Werner Zips -- Polyvocality and constructions of syncretism in Winti / Ineke van Wetering -- Seeking syncretism: the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Morton Klass