"My Soul Is A Witness" : Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature |
Autore | Henderson Carol |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (138 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Religion & beliefs |
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health
healing ancestral mediation illness activism women's rights spirituality Oshun eroticism God Oya ghost spirits honey storms caul the amen corner james baldwin black feminism sermon art literature music black preacher religion gospel music Thomas Dorsey Nettie Dorsey blues maternal death infant mortality hapticality Gnosticism womanist theology African American women Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Paradise The Source of Self-Regard Phillis Wheatley race Thomas Jefferson Christianity African American women writers 1970 extra-naturalism African American women's spirituality nommo multimodal narrative self-actualization community asylum hill project naming pre-emancipation genealogy grounds of contention (in)visible revisionist interrogation spiritual translation uppity womanist |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti |
âMy Soul Is A Witnessâ
“My Soul Is A Witness” |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557316803321 |
Henderson Carol
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Ghosts of futures past [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry |
Autore | McGarry Molly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.90973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century
Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century |
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19th century
academic afterlife american culture american history american spiritualism belief communication cultural history cultural studies faith ghosts immaterial magic marginalized groups marginalized voices material world medium new religion occult otherworldly parlor game political politics religion religious studies scholarly secular secularism social history social studies spirits spiritualism spiritualist spirituality uncanny |
ISBN |
9786612359309
1-282-35930-4 0-520-93406-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787593603321 |
McGarry Molly
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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Holy harlots [[electronic resource] ] : femininity, sexuality, and black magic in Brazil / / Kelly E. Hayes |
Autore | Hayes Kelly E. <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.6/996121140981 |
Soggetto topico |
Pomba-Gira
Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil |
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afro brazilian
anthropology black magic brazil contemporary brazil controversial figures femininity feminism gender politics gender studies gendered violence magic modern history morality mystical nonfiction pomba gira prostitution religious figures religious practices rio de janeiro rituals sex politics sexuality social marginality social science spirits spirituality superstitious urban brazil world religions |
ISBN |
0-520-94943-9
1-283-27809-X 9786613278098 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Wicked women and femmes fatales -- Pomba Gira and the religious imagination -- Life on the margins -- Sexuality, morality, and the logic of gender -- Becoming a zelador -- Spiritual defenders and protectors -- Maria Molambo's revenge -- If God is all good, then only the devil can combat evil -- Balancing human and spirit worlds. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787592603321 |
Hayes Kelly E. <1968->
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Ngoma : discourses of healing in Central and Southern Africa / / John M. Janzen |
Autore | Janzen John M. |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1992] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 398/.353 |
Collana | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care |
Soggetto topico |
Rites and ceremonies - Africa, Central
Rites and ceremonies - Africa, Southern Healing - Africa, Central Healing - Africa, Southern Traditional medicine - Africa, Central Traditional medicine - Africa, Southern |
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africa
african studies anthropology bantu bone throwing capetown central africa dance dar es salaam disease divination drum ethnography folk belief folk medicine folklore healers healing cults healing illness kinshasa kinship mbabane medicine music ngoma nonfiction performance performing arts possession religion rite ritual healing social science sociology song south africa southern africa spirits tradition |
ISBN |
1-282-35640-2
0-520-91085-0 9786612356407 0-585-12932-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Photographs -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction -- 2. Identifying Ngoma -- 3. Core Features in Ngoma Therapy -- 4. Doing Ngoma -- 5. How Ngoma Works -- 6. How Ngoma Works -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495866703321 |
Janzen John M.
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Sámi Religion : Religious Identities, Practices and Dynamics |
Autore | Fonneland Trude A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (198 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Research & information: general |
Soggetto non controllato |
Sámi shamanism
drums cosmological landscapes healing cultural heritage art spirits sun Sámi religion sieidi offering site contemporary offerings tourism Sápmi spiritual activism indigenous religion(s) colonialism Christianity institutional reconciliation justice Saami people Church of Norway Church of Sweden tourist souvenirs Sámi "shaman" drums Indigenous spirituality Frozen II indigenous religion religion-making appropriation collaboration religion terminology indigenous terms translation shamanism indigenous people Sámi curriculum religious education Sami Sami shamanism animism popular culture ludism materialist turn Frozen 2 Klaus Midnattssol KEiiNO ESC identity spirituality yoik indigenizing decolonizing recreating music authenticity indigenous methodologies Standing Rock activism traditional knowledge relationality reconnecting |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti |
Sámi Religion
Sámi Religion |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910674037703321 |
Fonneland Trude A
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Soul hunters [[electronic resource] ] : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev |
Autore | Willerslev Rane <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.89/46 |
Soggetto topico |
Yukaghir - Hunting - Russia (Federation) - Siberia
Animism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Yukaghir - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Ethnology - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Soggetto non controllato |
animals and persons
animals animism anthropology body and soul body soul dialects ethnography hall of mirrors world human rebirth beliefs humans hunters hunting life identity indigenous peoples insightful mimesis native peoples northeastern siberia personhood perspectivism phenomenology rebirth reincarnation religion and spirituality shaman shamanism siberia siberian studies souls species spirit world spirits spiritual upper kolyma yukaghirs |
ISBN |
1-282-77222-8
9786612772221 0-520-94100-4 1-4337-0878-7 |
Classificazione | LC 30326 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Animism as Mimesis -- 2. To Kill or Not to Kill: Rebirth, Sharing, and Risk -- 3. Body-Soul Dialectics: Human Rebirth Beliefs -- 4. Ideas of Species and Personhood -- 5. Animals as Persons -- 6. Shamanism -- 7. The Spirit World -- 8. Learning and Dreaming -- 9. Taking Animism Seriously -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784419403321 |
Willerslev Rane <1971->
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