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138 p, Description and analysis of the two most important religions of African descent in Cuban spiritual life: the first of Yoruban origin; the second of Congo-Bantu origin
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282 p, A popular exposition of the theology of the Rastafarians. Attempts to allow the Rasta to explain their doctrines in their own words, examining all key doctrines in different chapters.
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399 p, Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.
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Originally published by Paria Publishing Company Limited, 1955., 43 p, Documents Carr’s research and findings, during time spent with the Antoine family, at their Belmont Valley compound. The material Carr collected in the early 1950s remains the most detailed source of information about the beginnings of the Belmont group. Carr interviewed diverse Belmont inhabitants, but most important, he spoke at length with Henry Antoine, the son of Robert, the founder. Henry provided Carr with details about his father's life in Africa prior to his coming to Trinidad and about his establishment as a Rada leader at Belmont.
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309 p, Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell's plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados. Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community.
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216 p, A history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Examines the parallel histories of these two strands of the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong and where different circumstances have led them down unexpectedly divergent paths.
Hume,Yanique (Editor) and Kamugisha,Aaron (Editor)
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Book, Whole
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English; Some texts translated from French and Spanish.
Publication Date:
2013
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Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers
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623 p., Places classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond.
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Searchable site on postcolonial literature and the history, politics, and religion of those geographic areas. Covers Africa, Australia, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The sites have been cross referenced under Authors, History, Religion, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Matters, and Diasporas.
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., 335 p., Contains the theoretical basis for understanding African spirituality organized in biblical format, sacred texts, philosophical and historical African tradition. In the first part the author focuses on the traditions and knowledge of the ancient African regions of Congo, Uângara, Takrur and Senegambia, Ethiopia and Zambezia. The second part of the book covers Brazil, the Caribbean, Suriname and the United States.
Murphy,Joseph M. (Author), Sanford,Mei-Mei (Author), and Joseph M. Murphy & Mei-Mei Sanford,editors. (Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
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Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
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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
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197 p, "This bibliography compiles scholarly literature, primarily written in Portuguese and English, as well as a sample of the popular literature published between 1900 and 1997 on Afro-Brazilian religions.";
Goldschmidt,Henry (Author) and McAlister,Elizabeth A. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Oxford University Press
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338 p, Includes Elizabeth McAlister's "The; Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism"; John Burdick's "Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil"; and Kate Ramsey's "Legislating 'civilization' in postrevolutionary Haiti"
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75 p.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle, Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
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375 p, O núcleo central da tese é uma reflexão sobre aquilo que na literatura antropológica especializada tem-se convencionado chamar de branqueamento. Em oposição às interpretações correntes segundo as quais a "ideologia do branqueamento" teriasurgido, no Brasil no final do século XIX, como uma espécie de derivação ou readaptação das "teorias raciais ortodoxas", argumenta-se que o "ideário do branqueamento" estava presente nos fundamentos da sociedade colonial brasileira. Paracomprovar isso, tornou-se necessária uma "reconstrução histórica" do conceito de negro. Esse percurso mostra que a idéia do branqueamento passou, ao longo dos séculos, por diversas reformulações devidas às lentas mudanças na concepção de mundo ea contextos sociais e históricos específicos. Foi-se ajustando aos valores supremos de cada época, de concepções religioso-morais, biológico-"progressistas" a um ideário culturalista. A tese defende também a idéia de que a persistência da"ideologia do branqueamento" está vinculada, em primeiro lugar, às características específicas das relações de poder no Brasil. A resistência característica das estruturas patrimoniais à formalização de direitos e deveres individuais e de idéiascomo igualdade e diferença manifesta uma postura sociopolítica que tende a se opor a qualquer tentativa de burocratizar processos de inclusão e exclusão. Foi apenas nos anos 50 do século XX que a idéia de transformação de negro em bra. (Continuação) desmoronamento do sistema escravista, isto é, com a abolição. O último capítulo consiste num estudo de caso no qual se procura aplicar as reflexões teóricas elaboradas ao longo desta tese: "opõem-se" dois "pólos típico-ideais" da"representação negra"--O candomblé e o movimento negro - com o objetivo de analisar as divergências e convergências entre essas duas posições sociopolíticas diante do mundo; Thesis/dissertation
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174 p, Contains geography: Haiti. Haïti -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle. Haïti -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1957-1971. Haïti -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1971-1986.
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330 p., "By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, from the Central American coast of the Caribbean.
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385 p., The study is not a work about religion but rather of black African identity. Leaning on three black African societies (Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, Agni-Akan and Senufo Ivory Coast), the author investigates the notion of person. Faced with the question of death, passing moment of earthly existence of man to his condition.
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Prev. ed. published: Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1996, 268 p., Contents: 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
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267 p., Draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.
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3 pp., Argues that religion in the Caribbean and Latin America embody "gender ideology," the dialectical contradictions expressed in moments of patriarchal dominance and feminism and women’s liberation. These influence and guide the action of a particular class or social group in its own interest.
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182 p., Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.
Garoutte,Claire (Author) and Wambaugh,Anneke (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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258 p, In the summer of 2000, two award-winning photographers, Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, were researching Afro-Cuban religious practices in Santiago de Cuba, a city on the southeastern coast of Cuba. A chance encounter led them to the home of Santiago Castañeda Vera, a priest-practitioner of Santería, Palo Monte, and Espiritismo, a Cuban version of nineteenth-century European Spiritism. Out of that initial meeting, a unique collaboration developed. Santiago opened his home and many aspects of his spiritual practice to Garoutte and Wambaugh, who returned to his house many times during the next five years, cameras in hand.
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189 p., This volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts. Chapters include Latin American liberation theology -- Black liberation theology -- Latino/a theology: to liberate or not to liberate? -- African diaspora religion.
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Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006., 398 p., Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.: Gordon and Breach Publishers.
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417 p, Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home. Drawing upon ethnographic and historical research in a variety of contexts and settings, the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between religious and social life. Whether practiced at home or abroad, the contributors contend that the religions of Caribbean folk are dynamic and creative endeavors that have mediated the ongoing and open-ended relation between local and global, historical and contemporary change.
La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba: Casa Editora Abril
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204 p., Comentado e ilustrado sobre los números y leyendas cubanas afrodescendientes. Sus entradas léxicas muentran deidades, mitos y leyendas, con sus significado, caracterización, así como la impronta africana, europea y cubanas en sus interrelaciones y transculturaciones.
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275 p., Explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels "Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home," "MYAL," and "Louisiana" all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American experiences. The author traces nuances of the Caribbean psyche, the importance of matriarchs, traditional slave dances, obeahs, Santeria and other African-based religious expressions, as well as politics and history.
