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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa - Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination (Hardcover)
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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa - Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive
two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and
Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their
entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and
Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized
during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous
modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart
scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of
Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century
to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the
wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal
periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the
twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns
for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting
syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a
religious symbol and the prominence of Africana nations and
religious nationalisms in projects of black belonging and identity
formation, including those of Orisa mothers. Contributing to global
womanist thought and activism, Yoruba-Orisa spiritual mothers
disclose the fullness of the black religious imagination's
affective, hermeneutic, and political capacities.
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