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almafu_9959673951902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (296 p.) :
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52 illustrations
ISBN:
9781478003458
Serie:
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Inhalt:
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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introduction. Enter the Igbodu --
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1. Of Dreams and Night Mares --
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2. Hector Hyppolite èl Même --
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3. A Chronology of Queer Lucumí Scholarship --
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4. Lucumí Diasporic Ethnography --
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5. Queer Candomblé Scholarship and dona flor’s s/exua/lity --
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6. Transatlantic Waters of Oxalá --
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Conclusion. Transcripturality --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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DOI:
10.1515/9781478003458
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003458
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478003458
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003458
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478003458
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478003458?locatt=mode:legacy
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