Paul Christopher Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is Diasporic Religion? 2. "These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs across Three Diasporic Horizons 3. Shamans at Work in the Villages 4. Shamans at Work in New York 5. Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual 6. Ritual in the Bronx 7. Finding Africa in New York Conclusion Appendix. Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

"Johnson's work bursts through the present conversations on African diaspora and brings us onto entirely new ground. Johnson's work brings to life one of the most central, perhaps the most central, classic question of African American anthropology: "How is Black culture constituted, even through dislocation and displacement?"-Elizabeth McAlister, author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora "Diaspora Conversions offers an outstanding combination of theoretical acuity, erudition, and ethnographic prowess. It is bound to become highly influential in the study of religion in motion."-Manuel A. Vasquez, co-author of Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas"

Paul Christopher Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is Diasporic Religion? 2. "These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs across Three Diasporic Horizons 3. Shamans at Work in the Villages 4. Shamans at Work in New York 5. Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual 6. Ritual in the Bronx 7. Finding Africa in New York Conclusion Appendix. Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

"Johnson's work bursts through the present conversations on African diaspora and brings us onto entirely new ground. Johnson's work brings to life one of the most central, perhaps the most central, classic question of African American anthropology: "How is Black culture constituted, even through dislocation and displacement?"-Elizabeth McAlister, author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora "Diaspora Conversions offers an outstanding combination of theoretical acuity, erudition, and ethnographic prowess. It is bound to become highly influential in the study of religion in motion."-Manuel A. Vasquez, co-author of Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas"

Paul Christopher Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is Diasporic Religion? 2. "These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs across Three Diasporic Horizons 3. Shamans at Work in the Villages 4. Shamans at Work in New York 5. Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual 6. Ritual in the Bronx 7. Finding Africa in New York Conclusion Appendix. Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

"Johnson's work bursts through the present conversations on African diaspora and brings us onto entirely new ground. Johnson's work brings to life one of the most central, perhaps the most central, classic question of African American anthropology: "How is Black culture constituted, even through dislocation and displacement?"-Elizabeth McAlister, author of Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora "Diaspora Conversions offers an outstanding combination of theoretical acuity, erudition, and ethnographic prowess. It is bound to become highly influential in the study of religion in motion."-Manuel A. Vasquez, co-author of Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas"