Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. : Africana nations and the power of black sacred imagination / / Volume II, : Orisa : / Dianne M. Stewart.

"Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how the...

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Superior document:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 340 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • I Believe He is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad
  • I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige
  • We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism Since the Era of Black Power
  • You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition
  • The African Gods are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora
  • Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana.