Indigenous and African diaspora religions in the Americas / edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hebblethwaite, Benjamin, editor.

Jansen, Silke, editor.

Project Muse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Religion.

America.

Indigenous peoples--Religion.

Indigenous peoples.

Black people--America--Religion.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Meeting Grounds in Saint-Domingue and the Emergence of Haitian Vodou

2. The Many Faces of Marie Laveau and Voudou in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

3. Shamanic Healing, Initiation, and Ritual Technique in a Kwak'wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus

4. Language and Rituals of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Kongos of Villa Mella

5. A Joyful Place: Baniwa Jaguar Shamans' Songs and Historical Change

6. Embodying, Reshaping, and Combining the Past and the Future: A Mapuche Shaman's Historical Agency in Chile

7. Other Knowledges: Tensions and Negotiation between Religion, Knowledges, and School in a Wixárika Community

8. It's the Song That Cures: Healing, Music, and Ayahuasca in Brazil's Santo Daime Churches

9. Finding Orisha in New Places

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1496236475

9781496236463

1496236467

9781496236470

Publisher Number:

40031742945

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.