Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser.
Print version: Covington-Ward, Yolanda Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas Sebastopol : Duke University Press,c2021 ISBN 9781478010647
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword / Jacob K. Olupona -- Editors’ Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. Jouili -- Part I. Spiritual Memories and Ancestors -- 1. Spirited Choreographies: Embodied Memories and Domestic Enslavement in Togolese Mama Tchamba Rituals / Elyan Jeanine Hill -- 2. Alchemy of the Fuqara: Spiritual Care, Memory, and the Black Muslim Body / Youssef Carter -- 3. Spiritual Ethnicity: Our Collective Ancestors in Ifa and Orisha Devotion across the Americas / N. Fadeke Castor -- Part II. Community, Religious Habitus, and the Senses -- 4. Faith Full: Sensuous Habitus, Everyday Affect, and Divergent Diaspora in the UCKG / Rachel Cantave -- 5. Covered Bodies, Moral Education, and the Embodiment of Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- 6. Embodied Worship in a Haitian Protestant Church in the Bahamas: Religious Habitus among Bahamians of Haitian Descent / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- Part III. Interrogating Sacredness in Performance -- 7. The Quest for Spiritual Purpose in a Secular Dance Community: Bele’s Rebirth in Contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- 8. Embodying Black Islam: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Afro-Diasporic Muslim Hip-Hop in Britain / Jeanette S. Jouili -- 9. Secular Affective Politics in a National Dance about AIDS in Mozambique / Aaron Montoya -- Part IV. Religious Discipline and the Gendered and Sexual Body -- 10. Wrestling with Homosexuality: Kinesthesia as Resistance in Ghanaian Pentecostalism / Nathanael J. Homewood -- 11. Exceptional Healing: Gender, Materiality, Embodiment, and Prophetism in the Lower Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward -- 12. Dark Matter: Formations of Death Pollution in Southeastern African Funerals / Casey Golomski -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F.
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The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and negotiation of social relationships and collective identities throughout the Black diaspora..