Women and religion in the African diaspora : knowledge, power, and performance / edited by R. Marie Griffith, Barbara Dianne Savage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie), 1967-

Savage, Barbara Dianne.

Series:

Lived religions.

Lived religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE; 1 É a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé; 2 "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad; 3 Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Honduras and New York; 4 Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church; 5 "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church; PART II: POWER, AUTHORITY, AND SUBVERSION

6 "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender7 "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists Debate the "Woman Question," 1870-1900; 8 "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work; 9 Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith; PART III: PERFORMING RELIGION; 10 The Arts of Loving; 11 "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance

12 Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging13 "But, It's Bible": African American Women and Television Preachers; Notes; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-356) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-8901-4

OCLC:

923193548

Publisher Number:

2027/heb30590 hdl