Vodou en vogue: fashioning Black divinities in Haiti and the United States

"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthe...

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主要作者: Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2023]
In:Year: 2023
叢編:Where religion lives
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Haiti / USA / 伏都教 / 黑人 / 宗教經驗 / 物質性 / 美學
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBP America
Further subjects:B Ethnographies
B Black people Religious life
B Vodou Rituals
B Mambos (Vodou) (Massachusetts) (Boston)
B Clothing and dress Religious aspects Voudou
B Material Culture Religious aspects
B Aesthetics Religious aspects
B Mambos (Vodou) (Haiti) (Jacmel)
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總結:"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1469674009