| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 374 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Lived religions |
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Lived religions.
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| Contents |
É a senzala : slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- "I smoothed the way; I opened doors" : women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad / Tracey E. Hucks -- Joining the African diaspora : migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Women of the African diaspora within : the Masowe Apostles, an African-initiated church / Isabel Mukonyora -- "Power in the blood" : menstrual taboos and women's power in an African instituted church / Deidre Helen Crumbley -- "The spirit of the Holy Ghost is a male spirit" : African American preaching women and the paradoxes of gender / Wallace Best -- "Make us a power" : African American Methodists debate the "woman question," 1870-1900 / Martha S. Jones -- "Only a woman would do" : Bible reading and African American women's organizing work / Anthea D. Butler -- Exploring the religious connection : Black women community workers, religious agency, and the force of faith / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- The arts of loving / Lisa Gail Collins -- "Truths that liberate the soul" : Eva Jessye and the politics of religious performance / Judith Weisenfeld -- Shopping with Sister Zubayda : African American Sunni Muslim rituals of consumption and belonging / Carolyn Rouse -- "But it's Bible" : African American women and television preachers / Marla Frederick-McGlathery |
| Summary |
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-356) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women and religion.
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Religion.
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religion (discipline)
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11.09 systematic religious studies: other.
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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Religion
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Women and religion
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Schwarze Frau
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Religion
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Godsdienst.
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Afrikanen.
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Vrouwen.
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Diaspora.
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Karibik
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USA
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Amerika.
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Afrika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967-
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Savage, Barbara Dianne
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| ISBN |
9780801889011 |
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0801889014 |
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0801883709 |
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9780801883705 |
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0801883695 |
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9780801883699 |
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