Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / [electronic resource] :
edited by Stephan Palmie.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- vi, 388 p.
- Studies of religion in Africa : supplements to the journal of religions in Africa, v. 33 0169-9814 ; .
- Studies on religion in Africa ; 33. .
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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