Africas of the Americas: beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions
Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equ...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2008
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| In: |
Studies of religion in Africa (33)
Year: 2008 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of religion in Africa
33 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Afro-American syncretism
B The Americas / Blacks / Contextual theology |
| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Caribbean Area Religion B Afro-Caribbean cults B Africa Religion |
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Cover Table of Contents |
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| Summary: | Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | VI, 388 Seiten, 25cm |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-16472-7 90-04-16472-3 |
