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1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 254 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780231552028
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS -- 1 "THE DEVIL HAD HIS WAY WITH ME" -- 2 "I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP MY KID" -- 3 "AM I EVER GOING TO BE NORMAL?" -- 4 "EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE, YOU TAKE A PIECE OF ME WITH YOU" -- II METAMORPHOSIS -- 5 INCUBUS -- 6 SEEDS OF EVIL -- 7 CHRYSALIS -- III CHILD OF LIGHT -- 8 BETWEEN WORLDS -- 9 TREASURES FROM HEAVEN -- 10 THE DEVIL IS A LIAR -- WHAT IF YOU READ YOUR BOOK TO YOUR SUBJECT(S)? OR, ON METHODOLOGY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the "spirit realm." In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds
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"Take Back What the Devil Stole examines the lived religion of an extraordinary African American woman (Ms. Donna Haskins) as she struggles to survive the streets of inner-city Boston through the use of astral flight, telepathy, speaking in tongues, fasting, and spirit possession. Drawing from a mixture of Christian and Afro-Caribbean indigenous sources, Donna transforms her one-bedroom apartment and Boston's violent street corners into portals to other dimensions of reality, which she believes exist outside the bounds of wealthy white male power structures and established religious institutions. While historians of religion have often dismissed such paranormal phenomena as astral flying and telepathy as insignificant for the study of religion, Woodbine argues that these phenomena are essential to understanding religion, especially as it is lived among marginalized communities of African descent. In particular, practitioners of African and Afro-Caribbean indigenous traditions often find no contradiction between their Christian beliefs and the manipulation of energy and spirits that often exists in African-based spiritual practices. In order to fully understand Donna's lived religion and the spiritual lives of many black women in the United States, exploring these overlooked paranormal phenomena is both essential and a novel contribution to religious studies. To that end, the book combines ethnography, social science, theology, and personal narrative in order to capture the "felt sense" of Donna's lived religion in a compelling way that will enable readers to understand how women, particularly black women, live their faith in ways that upend the racist and sexist narratives and institutions of the dominant culture"--
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231197168
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Woodbine, Onaje X. O. Take back what the devil stole New York : Columbia University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780231197168
Sprache:
Englisch
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