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Book SynopsisIndigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas offers an introduction and nine original perspectives on religious and cultural traditions emanating from communities in several regions across the Americas.
Trade Review“One of the benefits of this book is the contributors’ use of a wide range of methodologies and approaches. There are few existing studies in comparative religion that offer such an intellectual feast to nourish the religious and critical mind. This is an excellent and well-researched book that is desperately needed in contemporary scholarship in religion and comparative religion.”—Celucien L. Joseph, author of
Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction: Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas: Multidisciplinary ApproachesBenjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen 1. Meeting Grounds in Saint-Domingue and the Emergence of Haitian Vodou; An Ecological ApproachLeGrace Benson 2. The Many Faces of Marie Laveau and Voudou in Nineteenth-century New OrleansEleanor A. Laughlin 3. Shamanic Healing, Initiation, and Ritual Technique in a Kwak’wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus Daniel J. Frim
4. Language and Rituals of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Kongos of Villa Mella José María Santos Rovira
5. “A Joyful Place”: Baniwa Jaguar Shamans’ Songs and Historical Change Robin M. Wright
6. Embodying, Reshaping, and Combining the Past and the Future: A Mapuche Shaman’s Historical Agency in Chile Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
7. Other Knowledges: Tensions and Negotiation between Religion, Knowledges, and School in a Wixárika community Francisco Iritamei Benítez de la Cruz and Itxaso García Chapinal
8. “It’s the Song that Cures”: Healing, Music, and Ayahuasca in Brazil’s Santo Daime Churches Dereck Daschke
9. Finding Orisha in New Places Jeffery M. Gonzalez
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