Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa : Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, Volume 2.

By: Stewart, Dianne MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People SeriesPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781478092773Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, OrisaLOC classification: BL2532Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations Used in Text -- Note on Orthography and Terminology -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Volume II -- 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here. Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad -- 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things. Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige -- 3. "We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black." Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power -- 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power!. Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition -- 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations. An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora -- Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations Used in Text -- Note on Orthography and Terminology -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Volume II -- 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here. Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad -- 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things. Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige -- 3. "We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black." Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power -- 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power!. Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition -- 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations. An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora -- Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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