Africas of the Americas [electronic resource] : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / edited by Stephan Palmie.

Contributor(s): Palmie, Stephan | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on religion in Africa ; 33.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008Description: vi, 388 pISBN: 9789047432708 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Afro-Caribbean cults | Africa -- Religion | Caribbean Area -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 299.6097 LOC classification: BL2565 | .A36 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmie -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Roman -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecue's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmie -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomble / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmie -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Roman -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecue's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmie -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomble / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.

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