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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Published in:Studies of religion in Africa
Contributors: Palmié, Stephan 1959- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2008
In: Studies of religion in Africa (33)
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
Online Access: Cover
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:9004164723