Description
Book Synopsis Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.
Trade Review “These essays collectively demonstrate the complexity of the black Atlantic and how it continues to shape the modern world… Recommended.” • Choice
“Offers very timely ethnographic explorations of contemporary configurations of the black Atlantic and its endless possibilities, reinventions, rerouting and rerooting… It should be of immense value for graduate students and established scholars in a variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences.” • Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University
Table of Contents List of Figures
Introduction: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Atlantic
Markus Balkenhol, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Ramon Sarró
Chapter 1. Silent Histories: Deadly Chinos and the Memorialization of a Chinese Imaginary through Afro-Cuban Religions
Diana Espíríto Santo
Chapter 2. Of Revelation and Re-Creation: Christian Miracles and African Traditions in the Atlantic
Roger Sansi
Chapter 3. Peruvian Israelites: Territorial Narratives and Religious Connections across the Atlantic
Carmen González Hacha
Chapter 4. Defending What’s Ours: Asserting Land Rights through Popular Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo
Katerina Chatzikidi
Chapter 5. Emergent Atlantics: Black Evangelicals’ Quest for a New Moral Geography in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Bruno Reinhardt
Chapter 6. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal: Avoiding Stigmas and Building Bridges
Claudia Swatowiski
Chapter 7. Our Lady of Fátima in Brazil, Iemanjá in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic
Clara Saraiva
Chapter 8. Eight Movements and a Coda on the Baroque Atlantic
Mattijs van de Port
Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration
Roos Dorsman
Chapter 10. Imaging the African Diaspora: Cultural Heritage, Religion, and Belonging in the Netherlands
Markus Balkenhol
Chapter 11. Places of No History in Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes
Chapter 12. Slavery Histories from the Hinterland: Making Indigenous Heritage Landscapes in Western Burkina Faso
Laurence Douny
Chapter 13. A Prophetic Enclave: Religious Heritage and Environmental History in Northern Angola
Ramon Sarró and Marina Temudo
Conclusion: From the Atlantic Point of View: Some Concluding Thoughts
Ramon Sarró
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