Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa : Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, Volume 2.
Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations Used in Text
- Note on Orthography and Terminology
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volume II
- 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here. Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad
- 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things. Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige
- 3. "We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black." Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power
- 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power!. Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition
- 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations. An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora
- Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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