LEADER 02480nam 2200409Ka 450 001 9911025990803321 005 20251203171254.0 010 $a1-4780-9436-2 035 $a(CKB)40950146700041 035 $a(ODN)ODN0012317690 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940950146700041 100 $a20250917d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArchival irruptions $eConstructing religion and criminalizing obeah in eighteenth-century jamaica. /$fKatharine Gerbner 210 $d2025 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. 311 08$a1-4780-2903-X 330 $aIn 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions , Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen as a healing method, an Africana religion, a science, and a form of witchcraft. Gerbner shows that in the years directly preceding its criminalization, for enslaved Africans and Maroons, Obeah was a prophetic practice tied to healing and death rites. Drawing on Moravian missionary archives, Gerbner theorizes these descriptions of African religious beliefs, rituals, and concepts as "irruptions": moments when Africana epistemologies break the narrative of a European-authored archival document. In these irruptions, we see European assertions of authority through the lens of Obeah. Moreover, we find that the modern category of religion is rooted in the histories of slavery, rebellion, and the criminalization of Black religious practices. Gerbner's search for archival irruptions not only creates an opportunity to write an alternative narration about Obeah; it provides a new methodology for all those conducting archival research. 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aReligion & Spirituality$2OverDrive 606 $aSociology$2OverDrive 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aReligion & Spirituality. 615 7$aSociology. 686 $aHIS024000$aSOC056000$aREL121000$2bisacsh 700 $aGerbner$b Katharine$f1983-$01848665 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911025990803321 996 $aArchival Irruptions$94435887 997 $aUNINA