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Embodying Black religions in Africa and its diasporas / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religious cultures of African and African diaspora peoplePublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1478013117
  • 9781478013112
  • 1478092343
  • 9781478092346
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Embodying Black religions in Africa and its diasporas.LOC classification:
  • BL2400 .E49 2021
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Contents:
Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction. Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili -- Spirited choreographies : embodied memories and domestic enslavement in Togolese mama tchamba rituals / Elyan Hill -- Alchemy of the fuqara : spiritual care, memory, and the Black Muslim body / Youssef Carter -- Spiritual ethnicity : our collective ancestors in Ifá and Orisha devotion across the Americas / N. Fadeke Castor -- Faith full : sensuous habitus, everyday affect, and divergent diaspora in the UCKG / Rachel Cantave -- Covered bodies, moral education, and the embodiment of Islamic reform in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Embodied worship in a Haitian Protestant church in the Bahamas : religious habitus among Bahamians of Haitian descent / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- The quest for spiritual purpose in a secular dance community : Bèlè's rebirth in contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- Embodying Black Islam : the ethics and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic Muslim hip-hop in Britain / Jeanette S. Jouili -- Secular affective politics in a national dance about AIDS in Mozambique / Aaron Montoya -- Wrestling with homosexuality : kinesthesia as resistance in Ghanaian pentecostalism / Nathanael Homewood -- Exceptional healing : gender, materiality, embodiment, and prophetism in the Lower Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward -- Dark matter : formations of death pollution in southeastern African funerals / Casey Golomski.
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Summary: ""Embodying Black Religions in African and Its Diasporas critically examines the role of the body as religiously motivated social action for people of African descent across the geographic regions of the African continent, the Caribbean and Latin America, the American South, and Europe. Tackling a variety of religious contexts, from Pentecostalism, to Ifa divination, to Islam, the contributors investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of particular social relationships and collective identities"--Publisher's descriptionSummary: "The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of social relationships and collective identities throughout the Black diaspora."-- Provided by publisher
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Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction. Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili -- Spirited choreographies : embodied memories and domestic enslavement in Togolese mama tchamba rituals / Elyan Hill -- Alchemy of the fuqara : spiritual care, memory, and the Black Muslim body / Youssef Carter -- Spiritual ethnicity : our collective ancestors in Ifá and Orisha devotion across the Americas / N. Fadeke Castor -- Faith full : sensuous habitus, everyday affect, and divergent diaspora in the UCKG / Rachel Cantave -- Covered bodies, moral education, and the embodiment of Islamic reform in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Embodied worship in a Haitian Protestant church in the Bahamas : religious habitus among Bahamians of Haitian descent / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- The quest for spiritual purpose in a secular dance community : Bèlè's rebirth in contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- Embodying Black Islam : the ethics and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic Muslim hip-hop in Britain / Jeanette S. Jouili -- Secular affective politics in a national dance about AIDS in Mozambique / Aaron Montoya -- Wrestling with homosexuality : kinesthesia as resistance in Ghanaian pentecostalism / Nathanael Homewood -- Exceptional healing : gender, materiality, embodiment, and prophetism in the Lower Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward -- Dark matter : formations of death pollution in southeastern African funerals / Casey Golomski.

""Embodying Black Religions in African and Its Diasporas critically examines the role of the body as religiously motivated social action for people of African descent across the geographic regions of the African continent, the Caribbean and Latin America, the American South, and Europe. Tackling a variety of religious contexts, from Pentecostalism, to Ifa divination, to Islam, the contributors investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of particular social relationships and collective identities"--Publisher's description

"The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of social relationships and collective identities throughout the Black diaspora."-- Provided by publisher

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