Women and Religion in the African Diaspora

R. Marie Griffith is a professor of religion at Princeton University. Barbara Dianne Savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.

• 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

An excellent resource for students in religious studies and scholars of the various religious movements examined. -- Ida Jones Journal of African American History 2008 Women and Religion in the African Diaspora both preserves and lovingly encompasses a multiplicity of black women's religious experiences. -- Stephen D. Glazier Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2009