Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

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

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Главный автор: Strongman, Roberto 1971- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Durham Duke University Press 2019
В:Год: 2019
Серии журналов/журналы:Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser.
Другие ключевые слова:B Christianity-African influences
B Religions African influences
B Christianity African influences
B Vodou (Гаити (мотив))
B African Diaspora
B Santeria (Cuba)
B Homosexuality-Religious aspects
B Santeria-Cuba
B Homosexuality Religious aspects
B Sex-Religious aspects
B Vodou-Haiti
B Electronic books
B Religions-African influences
B Sex Religious aspects
B Кандомбле (Brazil)
B Candomblé (Religion)-Brazil
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781478001973
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Итог:Roberto Strongman examines three Afro-diasporic religions--Hatian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé--to demonstrate how the commingling of humans and the divine during trance possession produce subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex.
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enter the Igbodu -- Part I. Vodou -- 1. Of Dreams and Night Mares: Vodou Women Queering the Body -- 2. Hector Hyppolite èl Même: Between Queer Fetishization and Vodou Self-Portraiture -- Part II. Lucumí/Santería -- 3. A Chronology of Queer Lucumí Scholarship: Degeneracy, Ambivalence, Transcorporeality -- 4. Lucumí Diasporic Ethnography: Fran, Cabrera, Lam -- Part III. Candomblé -- 5. Queer Candomblé Scholarship and Dona Flor's S/Exua/lity -- 6. Transatlantic Waters of Oxalá: Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe -- Conclusion: Transcripturality -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Объем:1 online resource (297 pages)
ISBN:1478003456