Taylor, Patrick (Editor) and Case, Frederick Ivor (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
2 vols. (1144 p.), Considers religious traditions such as Vodou, Rastafari, Sunni Islam, Sanatan Dharma, Judaism, and the Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Detailed subentries present topics such as religious rituals, beliefs, practices, specific historical developments, geographical differences, and gender roles within major traditions. Also included are entries that address the religious dimensions of geographical territories that make up the Caribbean.
Blanes,Ruy Llera (Editor) and Espirito Santo,Diana (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
305 p., By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities--with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions--providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents.
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374 p., This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Includes "É a senzala: slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé" by Rachel Elizabeth Harding, "'I smoothed the way; I opened doors': women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad' by Tracey E. Hucks, and "Joining the African diaspora: migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York" by Paul Christopher Johnson.
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353 p, Historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed.
Zeller,Benjamin E. (Editor) and American Academy of Religion (Association)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
New York: Columbia University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
336 p., This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Includes Elizabeth Pérez' "Negotiated foodways. Crystallizing subjectivities in the African diaspora : sugar, honey, and the gods of Afro-Cuban Lucumí."
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Papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, in September 1989. Originally published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1995., 282 p, Chevannes and his contributors suggest that we can better understand Rastafari -- and Caribbean culture, for that matter -- by seeing the movement as both a departure from and a continuance of Revivalism, an African-Caribbean folk religion. By linking Rastafari to Revival, we can enrich our understanding of an African-Caribbean worldview, and we can appreciate Rastafari not only as a political force but as a powerful expression of African-Caribbean culture and tradition. Chapters cover African-Caribbean religions in several countries and from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
Hefferan,Tara (Editor), Adkins,Julie (Editor), and Occhipinti,Laurie (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 238 p.
Notes:
Includes /Bretton Alvaré's "Fighting for 'livity': Rastafari politics in a neoliberal state" and Tara L. Hefferan's "Encouraging development 'alternatives': grassroots church partnering in the U.S. and Haiti"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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344 p., Essays that reopen the concept of possession in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped--and continue to shape--the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things--including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph--as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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219 p., Explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology. Includes Fiona Darroch's "Re-imagining the sacred in Caribbean literature."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Based on papers delivered at sessions held during 1969-1970 at Western College, Oxford, Ohio, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, and Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio., 390 p., Includes Leonard E Barrett's "African religion in the Americas : the islands in between" and Fred Gillette Sturm's "Afro-Brazilian cults."
Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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443 p, An anthology of 16 essays by scholars, artists, and ritual experts who examine the sacred arts of Haitian Vodou from multiple perspectives. Among the many topics covered are the 10 major Vodou divinities, the paintings of Hector Hyppolite, the multimedia pieces of Pierrot Barra, sequined bottles and sequined flags, and the work of the Brooklyn Priestess Mama Lola.
Tishken,Joel E. (Editor), Falola,Toyin (Editor), and Akínyẹmí,Akíntúndé (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
365 p., Explores Sango religious traditions in West Africa and beyond. It considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic Sango, the historical Sango, and syncretic traditions of Sango worship. Includes Stephen D. Glazier's article "Wither Sàngó? : an inquiry into Sàngó's "authenticity" and prominence in the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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309 p., Examines how African religions display themselves in the contemporary world, particularly in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. It studies their continued dynamism and relationship with other religious traditions, and contributes to the ongoing debate on syncretism. Includes Stephen D. Glazier's "Contested rituals of the African diaspora," pp. 105-119.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 456
Notes:
Includes Jerome Teelucksingh's "Black thorns and the Black cross: Catholic loyalties in the British West Indies during the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, in September 1989. Originally published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1995., 282 p, By focusing on the worldview of Jamaican and other Caribbean peoples, this collection of essays explores the themes of cultural continuity and change between the Rastafari, on the one hand, and Revival, Ndyuka and Winti religions, on the other. A wide range of topics are covered: continuity between Rastafari and Revival, the origin and symbolism of the dreadlocks, the process of Rastafari integration into British society, the Gaan Gadu cult, home rituals, and the theoretical problems of African retention in the Caribbean.
Almeida,Adroaldo J. S. (Editor), Santos,Lyndon de A. (Editor), and Ferretti,Sérgio Figueiredo (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Paulinas: Edições ABHR
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers presented at the 8th Simpósio da Associação Brasileira de História das Religiões, held in São Luís (MA) on May 2-5, 2006 and Colóquio Centenário da Morte de Nina Rodrigues held May 2006., 191 p.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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369 p., This title includes discussions of Ernest Hemingway's life and works. Includes Philip Melling's "Cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban religion, and Santiago's failure in Hemingway's The old man and the sea."
Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.
