Indigenous peoples: religions Books
Sounds True Inc Flourishing Kin
Book SynopsisFrom Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen comes a first-of-its-kind book about our aspiration for sustainable, collective flourishing through Indigenous wisdom, traditions, and practices that bridge Indigenous and Western knowledges and ways.How do we cultivate happiness? When facing the monumental challenges of our world, we often end up disconnecting in order to focus on our mental health. Dr. Yuria Celidwen explains this focus on our own state of mind alone is precisely why so many of us struggle to flourish. What's been overlooked is the Indigenous perspective of relationality, she says. It is the understanding that happiness is only possible in community, when we cultivate our relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and to our living Earth.Dr. Celidwen's research shows the tremendous benefit of integrating Indigenous approaches into our approach to well-being, while recognizing the gains made by Western positive psychology, mindfulness,
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Animism: Respecting the Living World
Book SynopsisAnimism' is now an important term for describing ways in which some people understand and engage respectfully with the larger-than-human world. Its central theme is our relationship with our other-than-human neighbours, such as animals, plants, rocks, and kettles, rooted in the understanding that the term 'person' includes more than humans. Graham Harvey explores the animist cultures of Native Americans, Maori, Aboriginal Australians and eco-Pagans, introducing their diversity and considering the linguistic, performative, ecological and activist implications of these different animisms.Trade ReviewThe strengths of this book are its fluid and engaging [...] writing, its openly committed stand on the central question, i.e., whether or not animals, plants, rivers, etc. are persons; and its use of major ethnographic sources as evidence, together with conversations with indigenous peoples. -- Professor Stewart Guthrie, Fordham UniversityHarvey's insightful and balanced study challenges both earlier studies of animism and more recent critics who argue that scholars should throw out the term altogether. This is a fascinating and passionate study of lifeworlds in which things are 'very much alive' and in which relation to non-human others is considered central. -- Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community
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Simon & Schuster Dictionary of Angels
Book SynopsisThe result of sixteen years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts, the classic reference work on angels is beautifully illustrated and its reissue coincides with the resurgence of belief in angels in America. Simultaneous.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Being In Dreaming
Book SynopsisA woman''s gripping tale of self-discovery in present-day Mexico.OLIVER STONEDonner''s tale casts a spell; it is a magic theater of holy actors, a dancing world of fierce angels all sweating their prayers. She offers us a brilliant taste of
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Baker Publishing Group Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview – A
Book SynopsisThis volume by a Cherokee teacher, former pastor, missiologist, and historian brings Indigenous theology into conversation with Western approaches to history and theology. Written in an accessible, conversational style that incorporates numerous stories and questions, this book exposes the weaknesses of a Western worldview through a personal engagement with Indigenous theology. Randy Woodley critiques the worldview that undergirds the North American church by dismantling assumptions regarding early North American histories and civilizations, offering a comparative analysis of worldviews, and demonstrating a decolonized approach to Christian theology. Woodley explains that Western theology has settled for a particular view of God and has perpetuated that basic view for hundreds of years, but Indigenous theology originates from a completely different DNA. Instead of beginning with God-created humanity, it begins with God-created place. Instead of emphasizing individualism, it emphasizes a corporateness that encompasses the whole community of creation. And instead of being about the next world, it is about the tangibility of our lived experiences in this present world. The book encourages readers to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of both Indigenous traditions and Jesus.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. The Myths of History and Progressive CivilizationsQuestion and Response2. Comparing Western and Indigenous WorldviewsQuestion and Response3. Decolonizing Western, Christian TheologyQuestion and ResponseClosing InterviewIndex
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Simon & Schuster Separate Reality Original Castaneda Carlos
Book SynopsisCarlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is natural and logical.In 1961, a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian''s world of non-ordinary reality and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become a man of knowledge. Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.
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The University of Chicago Press Make Prayers to the Raven
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University of Nebraska Press Black Elk Speaks
Book SynopsisPresents the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres.Trade Review“Black Elk Speaks is an extraordinarily human document—and beyond that the record of a profoundly spiritual journey, the pilgrimage of a people toward their historical fulfillment and culmination, toward the accomplishment of a worthy destiny.”—N. Scott Momaday “An American classic.”—Western Historical Quarterly “If any great religious classic has emerged in [the twentieth] century or on this continent, it must certainly be judged in the company of Black Elk Speaks.”—from Vine Deloria Jr.’s foreword Table of ContentsMaps Foreword Preface to the 1932 Edition Preface to the 1961 Edition Preface to the 1972 Edition Introduction by Philip J. Deloria National and International Honors Received by John G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks1. The Offering of the Pipe 2. Early Boyhood 3. The Great Vision 4. The Bison Hunt 5. At the Soldiers’ Town 6. High Horse’s Courting 7. Wasichus in the Hills 8. The Fight with Three Stars 9. The Rubbing Out of Long Hair 10. Walking the Black Road 11. The Killing of Crazy Horse 12. Grandmother’s Land 13. The Compelling Fear 14. The Horse Dance 15. The Dog Vision 16. Heyoka Ceremony 17. The First Cure 18. The Powers of the Bison and the Elk 19. Across the Big Water 20. The Spirit Journey 21. The Messiah 22. Visions of the Other World 23. Bad Trouble Coming 24. The Butchering at Wounded Knee 25. The End of the Dream 26. Author’s Postscript Appendixes1. Gallery of Photographs 2. Gallery of the Drawings by Standing Bear, Black Elk’s Friend 3. Transcript of Letter from John G. Neihardt to Nick Black Elk, November 6, 1930 4. Transcript of Letter from John G. Neihardt to Julius House, August 10, 1930 5. “A Great Indian Poet” from Of Making Many Books, June 20, 1931 6. “John G. Neihardt and Nicholas Black Elk” by Raymond J. DeMallie 7. “John G. Neihardt beyond Black Elk” by Alexis N. Petri8. “Neihardt and Black Elk” by Lori Utecht 9. Comparison of the Transcript and Draft of “Origin of the Peace Pipe” 10. Lakota Words Used in the Text Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press The Forest of Symbols
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. * American Anthropologist *
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McFarland and Company, Inc. African Traditional Religion in the Modern World
Book SynopsisAfrican traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spiritual practices followed by millions around the world. In an expanded second edition, this book examines the nature of African traditional religion and describes common attributes of tribal beliefs, with an emphasis on West Africa.
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University Press of Colorado Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire
Book SynopsisDrawing from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology, this work explores the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organisation, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition.Table of Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mosaics and Centers; 1; The Sources: From Storybook to Encylopedia; 2; Quetzalcoatl and the Foundation of Tollan; 3; Other Tollans; 4; The Return of Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire; 5; When Strangers Come to Town: The Return of Queztalcoatl and Millennial Discourse; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
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White Eagle Publishing Trust Walking with the Angels
Book SynopsisWhite Eagle''s teaching gives insights into the entire angelic kingdom, from the guardian angels who trigger the miracles in our lives to the great beings who are masters of the rays of creation. He speaks of the angels of creativity with whom we may work, and the angels operating in the rhythms of nature with whom we may find harmony.This book can enhance the life of any reader who learns through it to walk a path of co-operation and creativity with the angels.
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Independently Published Interpretando Obí: Una visión práctica del
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New York University Press African American Folk Healing
Book SynopsisPresenting a study of African American healing, this work sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. Through conversations with black Americans, it demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances.Trade ReviewAn exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing illuminating the vital cultural, intellectual, and spiritual expression of a people. This fine multidisciplinary work draws deeply and thoughtfully from the experiences and words of its subjects, offering alternative visions of human creativity, resistance, and community. -- Yvonne Chireau,author of Black Magic: Religion and the African-American Conjuring TraditionAfrican American Folk Healing is an insightful work that places folk healing within the context of larger spiritual, political, and intellectual movements. It illuminates the interconnectedness among activism, medicine, gender studies, folklore, and theology that influence the ways African American female healers work and live. * The Journal of African American History *Persuasively argued. . . . A fascinating study that makes a real contribution to discussions of health, wellness and faith in America. * Publishers Weekly *A readable book well suited for most academic libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I Historical Paths to Healing1 Stories and Cures: De?ning African American Folk Healing 2 Healing, the Black Body, and Institutional Medicine: Contexts for Crafting Wellness3 Healing in Place: From Past to Present II Today's Healing Traditions4 Healing and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century 5 Healing the Past in the Present 6 Religion, Spirituality, and African American Folk Healing 7 Hoodoo, Conjure, and Folk Healing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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University of Nebraska Press The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge History and
Book SynopsisFor centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. This title looks at the history and significance of the Lakota sweat lodge.Trade Review"With an extended description of such an experience, Raymond A. Bucko begins his comprehensive study of the sweat-lodge rituals practised by the Lakota people on the big Pine Ridge reservation of South Dakota. If you delve beneath the surface , you find that Bucko's position has some interesting complexities about it. He points out that fieldworkers and anthropologists tend to create an orthodoxy where none has previously existed. Though he searches for authentic illustrations of the sweating practice, he rightly wonders what can be considered "authentic" in a time when Lakotas are increasingly influenced by Hollywood movies and New Age nostrums... Bucko stands in the debate as a champion of variation." - TLS, May 7, 1999
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Pan Macmillan The Masque of Africa
Book SynopsisV. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 20Trade ReviewCompelling, insightful, often somberly beautiful. * Sunday Telegraph *Naipaul travels, he asks, he listens attentively and, above all else, he notices, often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him . . . he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-telling. * New Statesman *The quality of Naipaul’s writing – simple, concise, engaging – rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best. * Time *
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University of Illinois Press Mojo Workin The Old African American Hoodoo
Book SynopsisA bold new reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practiceTrade Review"Mojo Workin' is a key contribution to the study of Hoodoo in America, with some energizing new ideas about its origins, early expression, and broader religious aspects."--Journal of American Folklore"Hazzard-Donald set out to demonstrate the need to include African American Hoodoo in the study of African American religion in the New World. The search she presents in her work clearly validates the belief that there is a strong connection between African American Hoodoo and African American religion. . . . The author provides a great deal of research and analysis that is sure to aid scholars, students, and enthusiasts."--Journal of Folklore Research "Hazzard-Donald's formulation of Hoodoo's evolution represents a new chronology for its study and transformation over time. It's a valuable contribution to the growing number of volumes concerned with African-based traditional spiritual beliefs in the New World."--American Studies"A powerful reinterpretation of African American Hoodoo. This comprehensive volume will be an important tool for anyone interested in African American folk belief and the supernatural."--Jerrilyn McGregory, author of Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country"This tradition has been little studied especially within the fields of religious studies. Instead it has been left to anthropologists, sociologists, and certain popular cultural reports to present what have been incomplete and often offensive materials. This work has done an exemplary job of correcting that lacuna… A significant contribution to the literature of African-based traditions in the United States." --Religious Studies Review"The book presents possibilities for reassessing some misunderstood aspects of the African American religious experience. It is with a profound respect for Hoodoo as a living practice that Hazzard-Donald brings a kind of moral authority to her scholarship. In so doing she also distills many of the polarizing dynamics present in Hoodoo-Conjure communities today."--Nova Religio
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University Press of Florida A New Orleans Voudou Priestess The Legend and
Book SynopsisLegendary for a combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity. This book explores social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
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Indiana University Press Spirit Service
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Perhaps no religion has been more maligned and misrepresented than Vodu, Vodún, Vaudou, or Voodoo. Spirit Service engages the top scholars of Vodún in the world to capture the diversity and vitality of this quintessential African religion in a single volume, while at the same time offering a timely and vigorous counternarrative and testament to the Black religious imagination in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Indeed, Spirit Service is a tour de force in scale and scope, examining themes as important as they are riveting—art, performance, ritual, healing, resistance, funerary rights. Each treatment captures a complexity of the whole that is Vodún—highlighting the profound ways in which this religion has continued to adapt, rebuild, and reclaim all that is African religion. A must-read for students of African studies, history, religious studies, anthropology, and performance studies."—Nwando Achebe, Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, Michigan State University"The religious systems known as Vodu, Vodún, Vaudou, Voodoo, Gorovodu, and more have never been so thoroughly explored, interpreted, interrogated, and esteemed as by the writers of this lavish collection. The fourteen chapters in this volume provide extraordinarily diverse descriptions and narratives that allow readers to understand in abundant detail how Vodún (etc.) is not a single religion, but rather a vast global proliferation of sacred beliefs and practices that are in many ways related to one another, yet significantly different from place to place and through different historical periods. Readers will appreciate not only the diversity of forms and intentions of spirit service, but also that of the writers' relationships to their subjects, their closeness to the rituals or their more scientific distance, their identification (or not) with the community they study, their attention to performance, passion, aesthetics, rapture; and finally to political issues, class and race, state intervention, colonialism and its violence. This collection is an excellent and necessary addition to anthropology, history, and religious studies courses on Haiti, Voodoo in the U.S., African cultures, world religions, religious ritual and performance, art, and more."—Judy Rosenthal, Professor Anthropology Emeritus, University of Michigan, Flint"An impressive overview of Beninese Vodún and Haitian Vodou, this volume explores their various manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays in this anthology examine Vodún and Vodou's common history, their integration in their respective communities, their encounter with Christianity and Islam, and their remarkable adaptability to various social and economic changes. The Middle Passage and chattel slavery, and of late the migration of Vodún and Vodou to many parts of the world has transformed their sacred traditions to produce a multiverse of symbolic forms and has altered their beliefs and ritual practices. The authors examine the current forms of Vodún and Vodou as well as their continuity and discontinuity with their past. Vital for historians of religion, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, this book is likely to be an authoritative collection of essays and an important resource for scholarly research for years to come."—Leslie G. Desmangles, Professor Religious Studies Emeritus, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Christian Vannier and Timothy R. LandryPart I: Encounter1. Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue, by Terry Rey2. Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vodún, by Douglas J. Falen3. Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary Togo, by Eric James Montgomery4. A Prayer for a Muslim Spirit: Islam in Gorovodu, by Christian Vannier5. Where Have All the Ounsi Gone?, by Karen Richman6. Sailing between Local and Global: Vodou in the Modern and Contemporary Arts of Haiti, by Natacha Giafferi-DombrePart II: Engagement7. Taking Hold of a Faith, by Jeffrey E. Anderson8. The Physic(s)ality of Vodún and the (Mis)behavior of Matter, by Venise N. Adjibodou9. Vodou Skins: Making Bodily Surfaces Social in Haitian Vodou Infant-Care, by Alissa M. Jordan10. Spirited Forests and the West African Forest Complex, by Timothy R. Landry11. Vodou, an Inclusive Epistemology: Towards A Queer Eco-Theology of Liberation, by Nixon Cleophat12. Necroscape and Diaspora: Making Ancestors in Haitian Vodou, by Elizabeth McAlister13. Conclusion: Global Vodún and Vodou: Encounter and Engagement, by Eric James Montgomery and Timothy R. LandryIndex
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Rastafarian Children of Solomon: The Legacy of
Book SynopsisTracing their lineage back to King Solomon-the wisest man who ever lived- Rastafarians follow a spiritual tradition of peace and meditation that is more a way of life than an organised religion. During his 15 years living in Jamaica, Gerald Hausman developed deep friendships with Rastafarians and rootsmen, enabling him to experience firsthand the beliefs and traditions of these followers of the Kebra Nagast-the African gospel excised from the King James version of the Bible. He met bush doctors, Rasta preachers, members of the Marley family and respected elders who knew Marcus Garvey, prophet of the Rasta movement and vocal proponent of the Pan-African movement in America. He, also, met elders who were present when Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia and descendant of the House of David, came to Jamaica in the 1960s. Through interviews with fishermen, mystics and wise men, as well as direct encounters with spirits and the spiritual, the author reveals the deep wisdom that underlies the "old ways" of the Rastas. He connects their stories, lives and teachings with important biblical passages as well as reggae songs. He shares their views on the medicinal and meditative powers of cannabis-the sacred herb of Solomon-and explains that while Rastas believe it to be "the opener of the door," they maintain that peace and understanding must be found within. Illustrating the unwavering faith and hope of the Rastafari of Jamaica, Hausman shows them to be a people who, above all, emphasise equality, because the Holy Spirit within each of us makes us all one and the same. · Includes the author's interviews with bush doctors, healers and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica · Reveals the old ways of the Rastafarians and how their beliefs form an unbroken lineage tracing back to King Solomon · Explains the connection of Rasta beliefs to important biblical passagesTrade Review“Day by day, the elders who formed the foundation of Rasta in the 1920s and ’30s are passing. Within these pages you will meet a man who knew Marcus Garvey and an elder who met Haile Selassie I when he came to Jamaica. You will also meet younger rootsmen whose faith is constant and true. This book goes straight to the heart with truths that are seldom written but often said in my home country.” * Cedella Marley, author of the bestselling children’s books One Love and Every Little Thing *“Folklorist Gerald Hausman takes us deep into the modern dreamtime of Jamaica’s backwaters, enthralled by the company of living prophets and conmen, killers and saints, obeah workers and ethereal half-real creatures of the sea. They are all, as his eloquent mythlike prose reveals, the voices of the cherubim and seraphim of old.” * Roger Steffens, founding editor of The Beat magazine and coauthor of The Reggae Scrapbook and One Lo *“Hausman skillfully connects the lives and beliefs of these peaceful and resourceful people—fishermen, wicker weavers, Rasta preachers, respected elders, and wise men and women—through heartfelt conversations that arise spontaneously while sitting under the shade of a pimento tree, in a dusty yard, or by firelight in the cool evening ocean breeze. Rastafarian spiritual wisdom, recounted here in authentic Jamaican patois, emphasizes equality: an unwavering faith and hope in the holy spirit that lives in each human being.” * Publishers Weekly, February 2013 *“Highly recommended, especially for any reader looking to better understand the Rastafarian way of life through the words of the people who practice it.” * Midwest Book Review, April 2013 *Table of Contents Acknowledgments It Takes a Village to Write a Book Introduction Rastafarians in Jamaica: The Children of Solomon 1 Heart 2 Bird 3 Iron 4 Fire 5 I and I 6 Samson 7 Jonah 8 Rock 9 Tabernacle 10 Revelation 11 Never Run Away 12 Prophet 13 Blood 14 Bomb 15 Healer 16 Hear 17 Obeah 18 Believers 19 Beast 20 Switcher Glossary Bibliography Index
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Arnoldsche Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism
Book SynopsisTantric Buddhism views the mandala as an allegory and symbol of man's relationship with the cosmos and uses it in meditation that is to lead to enlightenment. Numerous digital models of the mandala describe it structurally and elucidate this complex form of Tantric practice in understandable terms. This book by Martin Brauen is the updated new edition of the 1992 publication, which has long been out of print but is regarded as one of the most comprehensive works on the mandala. The present publication contains texts, illustrations and tables that provide manifold approaches to and interpretations of this sacred symbol.Trade Review"Brauen's book is one of the clearest and most lucid expositions of mandala theory and practice to appear in recent years. As such, it is destined to become a classic both in the classroom and in the public reader's library." Prof. Frank Korom, Boston University.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching the mystery; The Centre of the Buddhist Wheel of Doctrine: Fundamental ideas; The outer mandala: The cosmos; The inner mandala: The individual; The other mandala: The Tantric method; The mandala and the West.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Bingo Palace
Book SynopsisA reissue of a much-loved classic, from one of America's most celebrated novelists, winner of the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.Seeking direction and enlightenment, Lipsha Morrissey, a charismatic young drifter, answers his grandmother's summons to return to his birthplace. As he tries to settle into a challenging new job on the reservation, he falls passionately in love for the first time. But the object of his desire, the beautiful Shawnee Ray, is in the midst of deciding whether to marry his boss, the wealthy reservation entrepreneur, Lyman Lamartine.Matters are further complicated when Lipsha discovers that Lyman is his rival in more ways than one. In league with an influential group of aggressive businessmen, Lyman has chosen to open a gambling complex on reservation land a development which threatens to destroy the community's fundamental links with the pastTrade Review‘Louise Erdrich is the most interesting American novelist to have appeared in years.' Philip Roth ‘Erdrich’s prose has a compelling pulse to it. It is fluent and seductive, with the vigour and erotic potency of good rock music.’ Sunday Times 'Beautiful … ‘The Bingo Palace’ shows us a place where love, fate and chance are woven together like a braid.' New York Times ‘In its empathy, its poetry and its sheer narrative power, 'The Bingo Palace' confirms Erdrich as one of the greatest composers writing today.’ Independent on Sunday 'The power of Louise Erdrich's writing lies in the clear access she has to her characters' thoughts and feelings, and her ability to translate those feelings into words that are both poetic and unforced. ‘The Bingo Palace’ is a beautiful novel, mysterious and revelatory, from a powerful American voice.' Erica Wagner, The Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Zuni Fetishes Using Native American Objects for
Book SynopsisThe Zuni have traditionally used small stone carvings of animal figures as power objects and mediators between themselves and the spirit world. Any object that has special meaning can be used as a fetish. In this fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the fetishes of the Zuni people of New Mexico, Hal Zina Bennett explores key principles of Native American spirituality and how early Zuni teachings can benefit us all today. He provides an excellent guide to Zuni traditions and an intriguing picture of their early life, along with detailed instructions for using fetishes for mediation, reflection, and insight in modern life. He describes key fetish figures, including the Guardian of the Six Regions, their legendary meanings, and the personal qualities each figure can support and help its owner develop. In explaining the nature of fetishes and the psychological and spiritual benefits that we can gain from their use, Bennett provides illuminating cross-cultural comparisons, stimulating exercises, and journaling opportunities.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Totems The Transformative Power of Your Personal
Book SynopsisDiscover the secrets of animal totems and their sacred, transformative powers.Among traditional Native Americans and other tribal peoples, totems are the enduring animal symbols that allow these peoples to explore the mysteries of life and the spirit world. from the graceful Antelope to the aggressive Cougarto the wise and peaceful Turtle, each animal embodies certain strengths and attributes that the spiritual seeker can embrace and follow on the path of self -exploration. Now, Totems offers each of us the tools we need to tap into thepower of sacred animal totems by finding our own personal symbol and experiencing its energy firsthand.Drawing upon his long association with native teachers, as well as guidance from his own spirit helper, author Brad Steiger has created a fascinating, informative, and thorough guide to this ancient Spiritual practice. Filled with the wisdom of many different tribes and cultures, Totems provides exercises and techniques for: choosing your own animal totem from the American Indian Zodiac receiving dream and vision teachings using animal totems embarking on a spirit journey learning the healing powers of totems calling on your spiritual helpers in times of need
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Taylor & Francis Inc Native American Religious Traditions Religions of
Book SynopsisFocusing on three diverse indigenous traditions, Native American Religious Traditions highlights the distinct oral traditions and ceremonial practices; the impact of colonialism on religious life; and the ways in which indigenous communities of North America have responded, and continue to respond, to colonialism and Euroamerican cultural hegemony.
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Penguin Random House Australia The Book of the Hopi
Book SynopsisThe secrets of the Hopi road of life revealed for the first time in written formIn this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona—a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America—freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends, and the meaning of their religious rituals and ceremonies as a gift to future generations. Here is a reassertion of a rhythm of life we have disastrously tried to ignore and instincts we have tragically repressed, and a reminder that we must attune ourselves to the need for inner change if we are to avert a cataclysmic rupture between our minds and hearts.
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Penguin Books Ltd African Myths of Origin xxviii Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisGathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here concern origins—whether of the universe, peoples or families. Together, they create a kaleidoscopic picture of the rich and varied oral traditions that have shaped the culture and society of successive generations of Africans for thousands of years, throughout the long struggle to survive and explore this massive and environmentally diverse continent.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout historTable of ContentsAfrican Myths of OriginIntroductionA Note on the TextList of MapsPart I. Some General ThemesStories About Hunters1. The San Peoples of Southern Africa2. Pygmies of The Central African Forests3. The Songhay Hunters of the Niger River4. The Origin of Hunters' Associations: Sanen and Kontron of the Manden5. How Hunters Learned about Magic6. The Animal Bride I: The Changed Skin7. The Animal Bride II: SirankomiThe Cattle-Herders8. Khoi-Khoi Cattle Stories9. Fulbe Stories of Cattle10. The Maasai of East Africa11. The Great Lakes I: The Origin of Cattle (Rwanda)12. The Great Lakes II: The Story of Wamara (BaHaya)13. The Chagga of East Africa: MurileTricksters14. Uthlakanyana, the Zulu Child Trickster15. Stories of Moni-Mambu of the BaKongo16. Ture, the Zande Trickster17. Eshu of the Yoruba18. Legba of the Fon19. Ananse the Spider, of the AshantiPart II. Stories of Kingdoms and PeoplesAncient Africa20. Egyptian Stories21. EthiopiaPeoples of the Upper Nile and East Africa22. The Oromo of Southern Ethiopia23. The Shilluk of Southern Sudan24. The Luo of Sudan and Uganda25. The Gikuyu of Kenya26. The Swahili of the CoastKingdoms of the Great Lakes27. The Kingdom of Bunyoro28. The Kingdom of Buganda29. The Kingdom of Rwanda30. The Kingdom of BurundiCentral East Africa31. Nsong'a Lianja, Hero of the Mongo32. The Kuba Kingdom of the Bushoong: Mboom and Woot33. The First Kings of the Luba34. The Kingdoms of the Lunda35. The Bemba of ZambiaThe Peoples of Southern Africa36. The Shona of Zimbabwe37. The Nguni Peoples of Southern Africa: Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi38. The Khoi-Khoi: Stories of Heitsi-EibibThe Central Atlantic39. The Yaka of the Kwango River40. The Kingdom of Kongo41. The Fang of Gabon and Cameroon42. Jeki la Njambe of the Duala43. The Bamun Kingdom of CameroonFrom the Forest to the Niger44. The Igbo45. The Kingdom of the Nupe: Tsoede46. The Jukun Kingdom of the Kororofa47. The Bachana and Bata of the Upper BenueThe Peoples of the Coast48. The City of Benin49. The Yoruba of South-western Nigeria50. Borgu and the Legend of Kisra51. The Fon and the Kingdom of Dahomey52. The Akan-Ashanti and the Baule of the ForestThe Mossi Plateau53. The Founding of Gonja54. A Dagomba Hero55. The Mossi of Burkina Faso56. The Dogon of the Bandiagara EscarpmentLake Chad and the Central Sudan57. The Sara and Sow of Lake Chad58. The Kingdom of Bagirmi59. The Kingdoms of Kanem and Bornu60. The HausaThe Kingdoms of the Western Sudan61. The Songhay Peoples of the Middle Niger62. The City of Djenne63. The Soninke64. The Maninka and the Empire of Mali65. The Bamana of the Middle NigerThe Peoples of Senegambia66. The Mandinka of Senegambia67. The Sereer of Senegal68. Njaajaan Njaay and the Wolof69. The Futa Tooro70. Malick Sy and Bondu71. The Tuareg of the SaharaSources and Further ReadingIndex
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Oxford University Press Dream Catchers
Book SynopsisHow attitudes toward Native American spiritually evolved from horror to appropriation.Trade Review"This extremely readable and thought-provoking book is recommended for academic and large public libraries and where there is strong interest in contemporary religion and Native Americans."--Library Journal"Jenkins has acquainted himself with the relevant historical materials and also acquainted himself with more New Age manuals, mantras and sales pitches than any human being should have to endure. This allows him to trace a striking shift in white attitudes, an exchange of one kind of willful stupidity for another."--New York Times Book Review"Magnetically absorbing.... Jenkins fills in the major details of the last two centuries of deep white interest in Native religion with his customary thoroughness, and he scrupulously avoids judgments about the validity as well as the theological truth of the many practices and cults he sketches. He relays fascinating history with scholarly care and in prose as clear as it is precise."--Booklist (starred review)"With his characteristic eye for nuance and his uncanny ability to master an enormous range of evidence and present it in a clear, compelling, provocative form, Jenkins has written an indispensable book."--Books & Culture"Anyone wishing to understand the ongoing romanticization of Native American spirituality should read this book.... Although Jenkins is critical of whites' apropriations of Native American culture and belief, and particularly of their tendency to repackage New Age ideas with a veneer of indigenous authority, his tone is never unfair; he does a masterful job of setting such uses-cum-exploitations in historical context."--Publishers Weekly
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Oxford University Press Handbook of Native American Mythology Handbooks of World Mythology
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Time ; Deities, Themes, and Concepts ; Annotated Print and Nonprint Resources ; Reference List ; Glossary ; Index ; About the Editors
£21.59
OUP India Charlatans Spirits and Rebels in Africa
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The University of Chicago Press Nature Religion in America From the Algonkian
Book SynopsisThis study reveals an unorganized and previously unacknowledged religion at the heart of American culture. Nature, Albanese argues, has provided a compelling religious center throughout American history.
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University of Chicago Press The Cooking of History How Not to Study
Book SynopsisOver a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship - a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa. This title provides an analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of Afro-Atlantic World.Trade Review"The Cooking of History is an extraordinary contribution to the study of Africa and its New World diaspora, the most important book published in this field during recent decades. Stephan Palmie shows the possibilities of a historical anthropology not derived from or contingent on the originary program of Melville Herskovits. The work accounts for the increasing complexity of the African diaspora and its increasing pertinence - or perhaps I should say impertinence - in the ways anthropologists and historians study and represent the world." (David William Cohen, University of Michigan)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Cooking of History How Not to Study AfroCuban
Book SynopsisOver a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship - a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa. This title provides an analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of Afro-Atlantic World.Trade Review"The Cooking of History is an extraordinary contribution to the study of Africa and its New World diaspora, the most important book published in this field during recent decades. Stephan Palmie shows the possibilities of a historical anthropology not derived from or contingent on the originary program of Melville Herskovits. The work accounts for the increasing complexity of the African diaspora and its increasing pertinence - or perhaps I should say impertinence - in the ways anthropologists and historians study and represent the world." (David William Cohen, University of Michigan)"
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University of Chicago Press Witchcraft Intimacy and Trust
Book SynopsisOffers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft.Trade Review"Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive intepretation of witchcraft as both a discourse and a lived reality, zooming into his fine-grained fieldwork material and then zooming back out to give historical, sociological, and political-economic context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he takes what might seem to be exceptional African circumstances and puts them in conversation with comparable cases from other parts of the world, allowing him to clarify what is really at stake-not only in Africa, but all over the globe." (Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Cult of Draupadi
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The University of Chicago Press Living without the Dead Loss and Redemption in a
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The University of Chicago Press For Money and Elders
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The University of Chicago Press For Money and Elders Ritual Sovereignty and the
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University of Chicago Press Fusion of the Worlds An Ethnography of Possession
Book SynopsisAn ethnography depicting Songhay possession ceremonies, and recreating the reality of spirit presences. In this book, the voices of individual Songhay are evident and forceful throughout the story. The author seeks to expand our understanding of the harsh world of Songhay mediums and sorcerers.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Kingship and Sacrifice Ritual and Society in
Book SynopsisValeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian societyand a central focus for Valeriis the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
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University of Chicago Press Living without the Dead Loss and Redemption in a
Book SynopsisJust one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion with ancestors is banned as sacred sites are demolished, female shamans are replaced by male priests, and debate with the dead gives way to prayer to gods. For some, this shift means liberation fromjungle spirits through literacy, employment, and democratic politics; others despair for fear of being forgotten after death. How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and see the world in a totally different way? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of shamans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, seeking explanations from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the Dead lays bare today's crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can bring new fulfillmentsbut also new torments and uncertainties. Vitebsky exploresthe loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing a diverse range of cultural and spiritual possibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this isa heartbreaking story of cultural change and the extinction of an irreplaceable world,even while new religious forms come into being to take its place.
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The University of Chicago Press Ethnographic Sorcery
Book SynopsisAccording to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. This work explores the issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of the author's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers.Trade Review"At its core, this very significant book is a meditation on how to understand discourses on and around sorcery on the Mueda plateau in Mozambique. Here, Harry West is concerned with the question of how Muedans use sorcery discourse, both 'to speak about the world and to act within it.' I found this book consistently fascinating, subtle, and deeply grounded in local understandings of a complex and ambiguous world and in anthropological theory." - Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz"
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Columbia University Press Take Back What the Devil Stole An African
Book SynopsisMs. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.Trade ReviewA stirring ethnography of a Boston woman who claims to have spiritual gifts. * Publishers Weekly *Layered, powerful, personal, nuanced, and deeply researched, the book tracks Haskins's violent childhood, her encounter with the Holy Spirit, and her experiences as a traveler in the spirit realms, warring against "the ghosts of American power." -- Nina MacLaughlin * Boston Globe *Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject. . . It’s a compelling story because it is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. -- Elizabeth Palmer * The Christian Century *A distinctive blend of reportage, personal memoir, and ethnographic scholarship rendered in elegant prose, the book is not only a fascinating portrait of a resilient person, but an examination of what American society has inflicted on Black women for generations and how they have used religion to get through it. * Boston Magazine *[An] inspiring story. -- Jon M. Sweeney * Spirituality & Practice *An inherently fascinating, exceptionally well written, thoughtful and thought-provoking read. * Midwest Book Review *Along with its moving prose, the greatest strength of Take Back What the Devil Stole is how successful it is at achieving the author’s goal of telling a story from its subject’s perspective. -- Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe * Nova Religio *[This] book is a powerful argument for the importance of the lived religion of “everyday” people. -- Alexandria Griffin * Reading Religion *Take Back What the Devil Stole is a well-told and painfully honest story of Black womanhood in the United States. Although not representative of the totality of the Black experience, Woodbine’s presentation of Donna Haskins’s account of the complexities of gender, race, and class paints a vivid portrait of the challenges facing urban communities in this country. An unquestionable strength of this project is Woodbine’s ability to envelop the reader in Donna’s journey from powerlessness to fully empowered. In addition, the author’s careful but intentional use of thick description provides a rather intimate read, making the text uniquely captivating. -- Dara Coleby Delgdao * Religion *Having met Ms. Donna in person, I can attest to the incredible power of her gift. The temperature in the room changes when she enters, and here Onaje X. O. Woodbine skillfully captures her essence while treating the reader to a thrilling, heartbreaking story of a Black woman’s hard-earned survival. Many of us have had a Ms. Donna in our lives; this book serves as a fitting tribute to the Black women who have crafted a beautiful existence out of rejected stone. Woodbine’s masterpiece reminds us that, even in the face of the most extreme trauma, transformation is possible. This book is required reading for a broken world, and Ms. Donna is one of the most compelling characters I’ve ever encountered. -- André Holland, acclaimed Broadway and film actor and producerOnaje Woodbine has crafted a compelling—gripping—story exploring the everyday spiritual world of a remarkable woman. As he takes us with him into this spiritual world, we see the big structural issues that shape urban poverty and racism through her life, and we also see the interweaving of religious traditions that constitute the lived religious power of this woman. This is urban ethnography, religious biography, and masterful storytelling at its best. -- Nancy T. Ammerman, author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday LifeA searing story of the darkness that haunts so many in America’s cities and a needed reminder that Black souls as well as Black bodies are under assault there. But out of the smoke and fire emerges a magical character who just so happens to be real—a victim of all the evils America has to offer who shape-shifts before our eyes into a mystic and prophetess who somehow manages to steal back her own life. Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win (Even When They Lose Elections): How America's Raucous, Nasty, and Mean "Culture Wars" Make for a More Inclusive NationWoodbine’s work is beautiful and compelling. The strengths of the book are its ethnographic intelligence, its attention to an unexamined area of Black religious experience and social location. Take Back What the Devil Stole is an exceptional contribution to the scholarship on lived religion as well as Black women’s multireligious belonging. A notable contribution is Woodbine’s adeptness at maintaining Donna Haskins’s control of her narrative and her multidimensional religious worldview. Drawing on womanist thought, Woodbine privileges Haskins’s voice throughout, and, as such, his engagement with lived religion maintains its focus on the practitioner and practice. -- Phillis Isabella Sheppard, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Daughter of Darkness1. “The Devil Had His Way with Me”2. “I Really Didn’t Want to Give Up My Kid”3. “Am I Ever Going to Be Normal?”4. “Every Time You Leave, You Take a Piece of Me with You”Part II: Metamorphosis5. Incubus6. Seeds of Evil7. ChrysalisPart III: Child of Light8. Between Worlds9. Treasures from Heaven10. The Devil Is a LiarWhat If You Read Your Book to Your Subject(s)? or, On MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Take Back What the Devil Stole An African
Book SynopsisMs. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the spirit realm. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.Trade ReviewA stirring ethnography of a Boston woman who claims to have spiritual gifts. * Publishers Weekly *Layered, powerful, personal, nuanced, and deeply researched, the book tracks Haskins's violent childhood, her encounter with the Holy Spirit, and her experiences as a traveler in the spirit realms, warring against "the ghosts of American power." -- Nina MacLaughlin * Boston Globe *Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject. . . It’s a compelling story because it is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. -- Elizabeth Palmer * The Christian Century *A distinctive blend of reportage, personal memoir, and ethnographic scholarship rendered in elegant prose, the book is not only a fascinating portrait of a resilient person, but an examination of what American society has inflicted on Black women for generations and how they have used religion to get through it. * Boston Magazine *[An] inspiring story. -- Jon M. Sweeney * Spirituality & Practice *An inherently fascinating, exceptionally well written, thoughtful and thought-provoking read. * Midwest Book Review *Along with its moving prose, the greatest strength of Take Back What the Devil Stole is how successful it is at achieving the author’s goal of telling a story from its subject’s perspective. -- Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe * Nova Religio *[This] book is a powerful argument for the importance of the lived religion of “everyday” people. -- Alexandria Griffin * Reading Religion *Take Back What the Devil Stole is a well-told and painfully honest story of Black womanhood in the United States. Although not representative of the totality of the Black experience, Woodbine’s presentation of Donna Haskins’s account of the complexities of gender, race, and class paints a vivid portrait of the challenges facing urban communities in this country. An unquestionable strength of this project is Woodbine’s ability to envelop the reader in Donna’s journey from powerlessness to fully empowered. In addition, the author’s careful but intentional use of thick description provides a rather intimate read, making the text uniquely captivating. -- Dara Coleby Delgdao * Religion *Having met Ms. Donna in person, I can attest to the incredible power of her gift. The temperature in the room changes when she enters, and here Onaje X. O. Woodbine skillfully captures her essence while treating the reader to a thrilling, heartbreaking story of a Black woman’s hard-earned survival. Many of us have had a Ms. Donna in our lives; this book serves as a fitting tribute to the Black women who have crafted a beautiful existence out of rejected stone. Woodbine’s masterpiece reminds us that, even in the face of the most extreme trauma, transformation is possible. This book is required reading for a broken world, and Ms. Donna is one of the most compelling characters I’ve ever encountered. -- André Holland, acclaimed Broadway and film actor and producerOnaje Woodbine has crafted a compelling—gripping—story exploring the everyday spiritual world of a remarkable woman. As he takes us with him into this spiritual world, we see the big structural issues that shape urban poverty and racism through her life, and we also see the interweaving of religious traditions that constitute the lived religious power of this woman. This is urban ethnography, religious biography, and masterful storytelling at its best. -- Nancy T. Ammerman, author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday LifeA searing story of the darkness that haunts so many in America’s cities and a needed reminder that Black souls as well as Black bodies are under assault there. But out of the smoke and fire emerges a magical character who just so happens to be real—a victim of all the evils America has to offer who shape-shifts before our eyes into a mystic and prophetess who somehow manages to steal back her own life. Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win (Even When They Lose Elections): How America's Raucous, Nasty, and Mean "Culture Wars" Make for a More Inclusive NationWoodbine’s work is beautiful and compelling. The strengths of the book are its ethnographic intelligence, its attention to an unexamined area of Black religious experience and social location. Take Back What the Devil Stole is an exceptional contribution to the scholarship on lived religion as well as Black women’s multireligious belonging. A notable contribution is Woodbine’s adeptness at maintaining Donna Haskins’s control of her narrative and her multidimensional religious worldview. Drawing on womanist thought, Woodbine privileges Haskins’s voice throughout, and, as such, his engagement with lived religion maintains its focus on the practitioner and practice. -- Phillis Isabella Sheppard, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Daughter of Darkness1. “The Devil Had His Way with Me”2. “I Really Didn’t Want to Give Up My Kid”3. “Am I Ever Going to Be Normal?”4. “Every Time You Leave, You Take a Piece of Me with You”Part II: Metamorphosis5. Incubus6. Seeds of Evil7. ChrysalisPart III: Child of Light8. Between Worlds9. Treasures from Heaven10. The Devil Is a LiarWhat If You Read Your Book to Your Subject(s)? or, On MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.19
Columbia University Press An Ethos of Blackness Rastafari Cosmology Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.Trade ReviewFor anyone wishing to understand the complexities of how Rastafari came about…this book is an essential read. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Vivaldi Jean-Marie's extraordinary study of Rastafari has the virtues of historically situating the movement while articulating its philosophical dimensions without fetish but with the virtue and respect of critique. Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness is a must read not only for anyone interested in Rastafari and the complex history of Jamaican struggles for freedom that led to its emergence but also for all interested in the contradictions and humanity of communities struggling for liberation. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of Fear of Black ConsciousnessThis is a highly engaging work of intellectual history that illuminates the origins, originality and future of the Afrocentric thought of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. Moving deftly through earlier expressions of intellectual and cultural resistance—the Maroons, Myalism, Obeah, Revivalism, and Garveyism—Jean-Marie's account is both comprehensive and highly revealing. Written with great clarity, it is a must for scholars of Caribbean religious and philosophical thought. -- Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyAn Ethos of Blackness takes a unique approach to the social and religious history of Rastafari, showing how the practice identifies, advances, and meets the ideals of Blackness broadly while remaining rooted within Jamaican society. Jean-Marie reevaluates Rastafari in its development and practice within the framework of cosmology to explain its origin, evolution, and, to some extent, its future. -- Iyabo Osiapem, William & MaryTable of ContentsPreface1. Resistance to British Colonialism and the Rise of Two Forms of Subjectivity in “Yamaye”2. The Genealogy of Rastafari Cosmology and Its Distinctive Ethos of Blackness3. Rastafari Cosmology, Natural Artifacts, and the Ethos of Blackness4. Rastafari’s Theology of Blackness: A Eurocentric God Cannot Love Africans and People of African Descent5. Rastafari I-Talk and Black Consciousness6. The Limit of Rastafari Cosmology: Gender Inequality and the Failure to Liberate Rasta WomenNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press An Ethos of Blackness
Book SynopsisThis book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.Trade ReviewFor anyone wishing to understand the complexities of how Rastafari came about…this book is an essential read. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Vivaldi Jean-Marie's extraordinary study of Rastafari has the virtues of historically situating the movement while articulating its philosophical dimensions without fetish but with the virtue and respect of critique. Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness is a must read not only for anyone interested in Rastafari and the complex history of Jamaican struggles for freedom that led to its emergence but also for all interested in the contradictions and humanity of communities struggling for liberation. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of Fear of Black ConsciousnessThis is a highly engaging work of intellectual history that illuminates the origins, originality and future of the Afrocentric thought of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. Moving deftly through earlier expressions of intellectual and cultural resistance—the Maroons, Myalism, Obeah, Revivalism, and Garveyism—Jean-Marie's account is both comprehensive and highly revealing. Written with great clarity, it is a must for scholars of Caribbean religious and philosophical thought. -- Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyAn Ethos of Blackness takes a unique approach to the social and religious history of Rastafari, showing how the practice identifies, advances, and meets the ideals of Blackness broadly while remaining rooted within Jamaican society. Jean-Marie reevaluates Rastafari in its development and practice within the framework of cosmology to explain its origin, evolution, and, to some extent, its future. -- Iyabo Osiapem, William & MaryTable of ContentsPreface1. Resistance to British Colonialism and the Rise of Two Forms of Subjectivity in “Yamaye”2. The Genealogy of Rastafari Cosmology and Its Distinctive Ethos of Blackness3. Rastafari Cosmology, Natural Artifacts, and the Ethos of Blackness4. Rastafari’s Theology of Blackness: A Eurocentric God Cannot Love Africans and People of African Descent5. Rastafari I-Talk and Black Consciousness6. The Limit of Rastafari Cosmology: Gender Inequality and the Failure to Liberate Rasta WomenNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.25
University of Illinois Press Mojo Workin
Book SynopsisA bold new reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practiceTrade Review"Mojo Workin' is a key contribution to the study of Hoodoo in America, with some energizing new ideas about its origins, early expression, and broader religious aspects."--Journal of American Folklore"Hazzard-Donald set out to demonstrate the need to include African American Hoodoo in the study of African American religion in the New World. The search she presents in her work clearly validates the belief that there is a strong connection between African American Hoodoo and African American religion. . . . The author provides a great deal of research and analysis that is sure to aid scholars, students, and enthusiasts."--Journal of Folklore Research "Hazzard-Donald's formulation of Hoodoo's evolution represents a new chronology for its study and transformation over time. It's a valuable contribution to the growing number of volumes concerned with African-based traditional spiritual beliefs in the New World."--American Studies"A powerful reinterpretation of African American Hoodoo. This comprehensive volume will be an important tool for anyone interested in African American folk belief and the supernatural."--Jerrilyn McGregory, author of Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country"This tradition has been little studied especially within the fields of religious studies. Instead it has been left to anthropologists, sociologists, and certain popular cultural reports to present what have been incomplete and often offensive materials. This work has done an exemplary job of correcting that lacuna… A significant contribution to the literature of African-based traditions in the United States." --Religious Studies Review"The book presents possibilities for reassessing some misunderstood aspects of the African American religious experience. It is with a profound respect for Hoodoo as a living practice that Hazzard-Donald brings a kind of moral authority to her scholarship. In so doing she also distills many of the polarizing dynamics present in Hoodoo-Conjure communities today."--Nova Religio
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Indiana University Press Ifá Divination Knowledge Power and Performance
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIfá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance provides an invaluable glimpse into the richness of indigenous African spiritualities, even when they are transmitted into new geo-cultural environments as African-derived religiosities. . . . This book is a must read. * Reading Religion *Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance is a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on Ifá. The essays, with amazing depth and complexity, situate this practice and the religion it represents into a broader global context. * H-AfrArts *This is a rich book with diverse perspectives converging on Ifa divination as a complex knowledge system. It informs readers new to Ifa studies, challenges experts to question their presuppositions, and does all this with multidisciplinary acuity. * Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft *Table of ContentsForeword / His Royal Highness Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse IIPreface / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. AbiodunIntroduction / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun with Niyi AfolabiPart I. Ifá Orature: Its Interpretation and Translation1. Ayajo as Ifá in Mythical and Sacred Contexts / Ayo Opefeyitimi2. Continuity and Change in the Verbal, Artistic, Ritualistic, and Performance Traditions of Ifá Divination / Wándé Abímblá3. Recasting Ifá: Historicity and Recursive Recollection in Ifá Divination Texts / Andrew Apter4. Ifá, Knowledge, Performance, the Sacred, and the Medium / Olasope O. Oyelaran5. "Writing" and "Reference" in Ifá / AdeìleìkeÌ AdeìeÌòkoòìPart II. Ifá as Knowledge: Theoretical Questions and Concerns6. Ifá: Sixteen Odù, Sixteen Questions / Barry Hallen7. Kín N'Ifá Wí?: Philosophical Issues in Ifá Divination / Olúfeìòmi Táíwò8. Diviner as Explorer: The Afuwape Paradigm / Rowland O. Abiodun9. "The Hunter Thinks the Monkey Is Not Wise. The Monkey Is Wise, But Has Its Own Logic": Multiple Divination Systems and Multiple Knowledge Systems in Yorùbá Religious Life / Mei-Mei Sanford10. Dagbon, Oyo, Kongo: Critical and Comparative Reflections on Sacrifice / Wyatt MacGaffey11. Ifá: The Quintessential Builder of Our Bank of Images / Akínwùmí Ìsola12. Odù Imole: Islamic Tradition in Ifá and the Yorùbá Religious Imagination / Jacob K. OluponaPart III. Ifá in the Afro-Atlantic13. Ifá Divination as Sacred Compass for Reading Self and World / Velma Love14. Ìtan Odù Òní: Tales of Strivers Today / John Mason15. Orunmila's Faithful Dog: Transmitting Sacred Knowledge in a Lucumí Orisha Tradition / Joseph M. Murphy16. Mofá and the Oba: Translation of Ifá Epistemology in the Afro-Cuban Dilogún / Ysamur M. Flores-Peña17. The Pai-de-santo and the Babaláwo: Religious Interaction and Ritual Rearrangements within Orisha Religion / Stefania Capone18. The Role of Women in the Ifá Priesthood: Inclusion versus Exclusion / M. Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola19. Transnational Ifá: The "Readings of the Year" and Contemporary Economies of Orisa Knowledge / Kamari Maxine ClarkePart IV. Sacred Art in Ifá20. The Creatures of Ifá / Philip M. Peek21. Of Color, Character, Attributes, and Values of Orunmila / Bolaji Campbell22. Signs, Doors, and Games: Divination's Dynamic Visual Canon / Laura S. Grillo23. Ifá: Visual and Sensorial Aspects / Henry John Drewal24. Art, Culture, and Creativity: The Representation of Ifá in Yorùbá Video Films / Akintunde AkinyemiList of ContributorsIndex
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