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Spiritual citizenship : transnational pathways from black power to Ifá in Trinidad / N. Fadeke Castor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castor, N. Fadeke, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Religion.
- Black people.
- Cults--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--African influences.
- Cults.
- Ifa--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Ifa.
- Orisha religion--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Orisha religion.
- Black power--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Black power.
- Trinidad--Religion--African influences.
- Trinidad.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for African diasporic religions to enter mainstream Trinidadian society. She establishes how the postcolonial performance of Ifá/Orisha practices in Trinidad fosters a sense of belonging that invigorates its practitioners to work toward freedom, equality, and social justice. Demonstrating how spirituality is inextricable from the political project of black liberation, Castor illustrates the ways in which Ifá/Orisha beliefs and practices offer Trinidadians the means to strengthen belonging throughout the diaspora, access past generations, heal historical wounds, and envision a decolonial future.
- Contents:
- Spiritual engagements with black cultural citizenship
- The spirit of black power
- Multicultural movements
- Emerging spiritual citizenship
- Around the bend
- Trini travels
- Ifá in Trinidad's ground.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822372585
- 0822372584
- OCLC:
- 1055402711
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