Women and Religion in the African Diaspora

Knowledge, Power, and Performance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvR. Marie Griffith,Barbara Dianne Savage

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This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-11-17
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLived Religions
Antal sidor400
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801883699

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Diasporic Knowledge Chapter 1. É a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian CandombléChapter 2. "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of TrinidadChapter 3. Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Honduras and New YorkChapter 4. Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated ChurchChapter 5. "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted ChurchPart II: Power, Authority, and SubversionChapter 6. "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of GenderChapter 7. "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists Debate the "Woman Question," 1870–1900Chapter 8. "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing WorkChapter 9. Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of FaithPart III: Performing ReligionChapter 10. The Arts of Loving Chapter 11. "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious PerformanceChapter 12. Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and BelongingChapter 13. "But, It's Bible": African American Women and Television PreachersNotesAbout the ContributorsIndex