Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Baltimore, Md.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Lived religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Women, Black
/ Religion
B Karibik / Women, Black / Religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Women and religion |
| Online Access: |
Table of Contents Table of contents only |
| Item Description: | É a senzala : slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomble / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- "I smoothed the way; I opened doors" : women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad / Tracey E. Hucks -- Joining the African diaspora : migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Women of the African diaspora within : the Masowe Apostles, an African-initiated church / Isabel Mukonyora -- "Power in the blood" : menstrual blood and women's power in an African instituted church / Deidre Helen Crumbley -- "The spirit of the Holy Ghost is a male spirit" : African American preaching women and the paradoxes of gender / Wallace Best -- "Make us a power" : African American Methodists debate the "woman question," 1870-1900 / Martha S. Jones -- "Only a woman would do" : Bible reading and African American women's organizing work / Anthea D. Butler -- Exploring the religious connection : Black women community workers, religious agency, and the force of faith / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- The arts of loving / Lisa Gail Collins -- "Truths that liberate the soul" : Eva Jessye and the politics of religious performance / Judith Weisenfeld -- Shopping with Sister Zubaydah : African American Sunni Muslim rituals of consumption and belonging / Carolyn Rouse -- "But it's Bible" : African American women and television preachers / Marla Frederick-McGlathery. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-356) and index |
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| Physical Description: | XX, 374 S, Ill, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8369-9 0-8018-8369-5 0-8018-8370-9 |
