Women and religion in the African diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and performance / / edited by R. Marie Griffith, Barbara Dianne Savage
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| Titolo: |
Women and religion in the African diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and performance / / edited by R. Marie Griffith, Barbara Dianne Savage
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200.89/96 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women and religion |
| Religion | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
GriffithR. Marie <1967-> (Ruth Marie)
SavageBarbara Dianne
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-356) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 SUBVERSION |
| 6 "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 Performance | |
| 12 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; Z | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and religion in the African diaspora |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-8901-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452157603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Lived religions.