LEADER 04784nam 22005413a 450 001 9910547692403321 005 20250322110037.0 010 $a9781478092346 010 $a1478092343 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478092346 035 $a(CKB)4900000000578845 035 $a(ScCtBLL)0640fbd5-f238-47ec-acb2-d7ab588fa70b 035 $a(DE-B1597)663047 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478092346 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010711179 035 $a(oapen)doab78363 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000578845 100 $a20220304i20212022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEmbodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas$fYolanda Covington-Ward, Jeanette S. Jouili 210 $cDuke University Press$d2021 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cDuke University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 225 1 $aReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tEditors? Acknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas -- $tPart I Spiritual Memories and Ancestors -- $t1. Spirited Choreographies: Embodied Memories and Domestic Enslavement in Togolese Mama Tchamba Rituals -- $t2. Alchemy of the Fuqara: Spiritual Care, Memory, and the Black Muslim Body -- $t3. Spiritual Ethnicity: Our Collective Ancestors in Ifá and Orisha Devotion across the Americas -- $tPart II Community, Religious Habitus, and the Senses -- $t4. Faith Full: Sensuous Habitus, Everyday Affect, and Divergent Diaspora in the UCKG -- $t5. Covered Bodies, Moral Education, and the Embodiment of Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria -- $t6. Embodied Worship in a Haitian Protestant Church in the Bahamas: Religious Habitus among Bahamians of Haitian Descent -- $tPart III Interrogating Sacredness in Performance -- $t7. The Quest for Spiritual Purpose in a Secular Dance Community: Bèlè?s Rebirth in Contemporary Martinique -- $t8. Embodying Black Islam: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Afro-Diasporic Muslim Hip-Hop in Britain -- $t9. Secular Affective Politics in a National Dance about AIDS in Mozambique -- $tPart IV Religious Discipline and the Gendered and Sexual Body -- $t10. Wrestling with Homosexuality: Kinesthesia as Resistance in Ghanaian Pentecostalism -- $t11. Exceptional Healing: Gender, Materiality, Embodiment, and Prophetism in the Lower Congo -- $t12. Dark Matter: Formations of Death Pollution in Southeastern African Funerals -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aThe contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the dynamics of religious and racial identity among Brazilian Neo-Pentecostals; the significance of cloth coverings in Islamic practice in northern Nigeria; the ethics of socially engaged hip-hop lyrics by Black Muslim artists in Britain; ritual dance performances among Mama Tchamba devotees in Togo; and how Ifa? practitioners from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, and the United States join together in a shared spiritual ethnicity. From possession and spirit-induced trembling to dance, the contributors outline how embodied religious practices are central to expressing and shaping interiority and spiritual lives, national and ethnic belonging, ways of knowing and techniques of healing, and sexual and gender politics. In this way, the body is a crucial site of religiously motivated social action for people of African descent. Contributors. Rachel Cantave, Youssef Carter, N. Fadeke Castor, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Casey Golomski, Elyan Jeanine Hill, Nathanael J. Homewood, Jeanette S. Jouili, Bertin M. Louis Jr., Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Aaron Montoya, Jacob K. Olupona, Elisha P. Renne 410 $aReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People 606 $aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 606 $aReligion / Comparative Religion$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)$2bisacsh 606 $aReligion 615 7$aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social 615 7$aReligion / Comparative Religion 615 7$aSocial Science / Black Studies (Global) 615 0$aReligion. 676 $a200.896 702 $aCovington-Ward$b Yolanda 702 $aJouili$b Jeanette S 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910547692403321 996 $aEmbodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas$92788074 997 $aUNINA