03503nam 2200685Ia 450 991045215760332120200520144314.00-8018-8901-4(CKB)1000000000482254(EBL)3318321(OCoLC)923193548(SSID)ssj0000273174(PQKBManifestationID)12082902(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273174(PQKBWorkID)10309734(PQKB)11350986(SSID)ssj0000475035(PQKBManifestationID)11312343(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000475035(PQKBWorkID)10463638(PQKB)11563505(MiAaPQ)EBC3318321(OCoLC)221177799(MdBmJHUP)muse2536(Au-PeEL)EBL3318321(CaPaEBR)ebr10188522(EXLCZ)99100000000048225420051110d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen and religion in the African diaspora[electronic resource] knowledge, power, and performance /edited by R. Marie Griffith, Barbara Dianne SavageBaltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20061 online resource (400 p.)Lived religionsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8018-8370-9 0-8018-8369-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-356) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE; 1 É a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé; 2 "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad; 3 Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Honduras and New York; 4 Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church; 5 "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church; PART II: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND SUBVERSION6 "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender7 "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists Debate the "Woman Question," 1870-1900; 8 "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work; 9 Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith; PART III: PERFORMING RELIGION; 10 The Arts of Loving; 11 "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance12 Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging13 "But, It's Bible": African American Women and Television Preachers; Notes; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; ZLived religions.Women and religionReligionElectronic books.Women and religion.Religion.200.89/96Griffith R. Marie(Ruth Marie),1967-874547Savage Barbara Dianne874548MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452157603321Women and religion in the African diaspora1952721UNINA