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Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems-ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being-alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodún, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems—ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being—alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
Critical Approaches to Religion: Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender
provides students with carefully selected readings that examine
diverse cultural religious traditions, as well as the intersection
of academic religious studies and the practice of religion
throughout the world. The anthology explores both mainstream
religious traditions and those that are marginalized, applying
theories of feminism, sexuality, race, class, and gender across the
board to offer readers a broad and comprehensive understanding of
global religion. Through selections authored by prolific writers in
the field, coupled with insights from the editors for additional
context, students learn about critical approaches to religion, the
various methods of studying religion, the concept of belief, the
connection of myth to ritual, the idea of mysticism, how gender and
sexuality factor into religious experiences, and more.
Cross-disciplinary in nature, Critical Approaches to Religion is
designed to serve as a supplementary text for foundational courses
in religion, world religion, anthropology, sociology, and history.
The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian
Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they
continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los
Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and
embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern,
and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The
contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of
slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed
from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices,
community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of
resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing
personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book
is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion,
art, and linguistics.
The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian
Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they
continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los
Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and
embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern,
and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The
contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of
slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed
from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices,
community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of
resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing
personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book
is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion,
art, and linguistics.
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