Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. Volume II, Orisa : Africana nations and the power of black sacred imagination / Dianne M. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Dianne M., author.

Series:

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people ; 7.

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Religion.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad

Place of Publication:

2022.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a religious symbol and the prominence of Africana nations and religious nationalisms in projects of black belonging and identity formation, including those of Orisa mothers. Contributing to global womanist thought and activism, Yoruba-Orisa spiritual mothers disclose the fullness of the black religious imagination's affective, hermeneutic, and political capacities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Believe He is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad

I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige

We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism Since the Era of Black Power

You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had ower! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition

The African Gods are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora

Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.