1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782483303321

Titolo

The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by T. Trost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-91543-2

9786611915438

0-230-60993-7

Edizione

[First edition 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Religion/Culture/Critique.

Disciplina

200.8996

Soggetti

Ethnology - Africa

Religion

Theology

Religion and sociology

Religions

Religion - History

African Culture

Religious Studies, general

Christian Theology

Sociology of Religion

Comparative Religion

History of Religion

Black people - Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Africa in diaspora -- Diaspora in literature and culture -- Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Diaspora in theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822759603321

Autore

Oberman Michelle

Titolo

When mothers kill : interviews from prison / / Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

9780814762516

0814762514

9780814762196

0814762190

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerCheryl L. <1959->

Disciplina

364.152/308520973

Soggetti

Women prisoners - United States

Women murderers - United States

Filicide - United States

Infanticide - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The saddest stories -- She's the world to me : the mother-daughter relationships described by mothers who committed filicide -- Fighting for love : filicidal mothers and their male partners -- Mothering : hopes, expectations and realities -- Punishment, shame and guilt -- Making sense of the stories -- Interactions with the state : holes in the safety nets -- The end of the story.

Sommario/riassunto

From the Publisher: Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination.  When Mothers Kill is compelling.  In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children.  Readers will be shocked and outraged-as much by the violence the women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they engaged in-but they will also be informed and even enlightened.  



Oberman and Meyer are leading authorities on their subject.  Their 2001 book, Mothers Who Kill Their Children, drew from hundreds of newspaper articles as well as from medical and social science journals to propose a comprehensive typology of "maternal filicide."  In that same year, driven by a desire to test their typology-and to better understand child-killing women not just as types but as individuals-Oberman and Meyer began interviewing women who had been incarcerated for the crime.  After conducting lengthy, face-to-face interviews with forty prison inmates, they returned and selected eight women to speak with at even greater length.  This new book begins with these stories, recounted in the matter-of-fact words of the inmates themselves.  There are collective themes that emerge from these individual accounts, including histories of relentless interpersonal violence, troubled relationships with parents (particularly with mothers), twisted notions of romantic love, and deep conflicts about motherhood.  These themes structure the book's overall narrative, which also includes an insightful examination of the social and institutional systems that have failed these women.  Neither the mothers nor the authors offer these stories as excuses for these crimes.