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The Spiritual Churches Of New Orleans - Origins, Beliefs, And Rituals Of An African American (Paperback)
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The Spiritual Churches Of New Orleans - Origins, Beliefs, And Rituals Of An African American (Paperback)
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The New Orleans Spiritual churches constitute a distinctive
African-American belief system. Influenced by Catholicism,
Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, and Voodoo, the group is a New World
syncretic faith, similar to Espiritismo, Santeria, and Umbanda. The
Spiritual Churches of New Orleans combines a historical account of
the emergence of this religion with careful ethnographic
description of current congregations. At the same time, text and
photographs eloquently convey the ecstasy at the heart of the
Spiritual experience. The Spiritual churches began in the 1920s as
a women's movement. Men later assumed leadership in an effort to
legitimate the group within the New Orleans religious community and
form associations with Spiritual churches elsewhere in the United
States. Unlike earlier researchers, who treated practices in the
churches as expressions of black folk traditions, the authors see
Spiritual ritual not as based on magic, but as the way the sacred
is acted out within an African-American aesthetic. During worship,
members may be filled by the Holy Spirit, as in Pentecostal
churches, or "entertain" spirits or spirit guides, as in
Spiritualism or Voodoo. Prophecy and healing are presented as the
markers of this faith, and the Native American figure Black Hawk as
a major symbol of empowerment. Based on extensive interviews with
church members, years of participant observation, and careful
research in documentary sources, this book achieves rigorous
conceptual clarity in a straightforward, engaging style.
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