{"product_id":"obeah-orisa-and-religious-identity-in-trinidad-volume-ii-orisa-9781478013921","title":"Obeah Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVolume II, Orisa\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 relig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stewart’s volume masterfully probes African Trinidadians’ use of Yoruba identified ritual poetics and social formations. ... These two volumes will be of very great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] theoretically sophisticated and intellectually stimulating publication by two of the foremost scholars of African heritage religions working in the academy today.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations Used in Text  ix\u003cbr\u003e Note on Orthography and Terminology  xi\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Volume II  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e in Trinidad  9\u003cbr\u003e 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige  52\u003cbr\u003e 3. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious \u003ci\u003eNationalism\u003c\/i\u003e since the Era of Black Power  83\u003cbr\u003e 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition  147\u003cbr\u003e 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and \u003ci\u003eNations\u003c\/i\u003e: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora  221\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. \u003ci\u003eOrisa Vigoyana from Guyana\u003c\/i\u003e  249\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations Use in Notes  255\u003cbr\u003e Notes  257\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  305\u003cbr\u003e Index  327","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994640215,"sku":"9781478013921","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013921.jpg?v=1730505011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/obeah-orisa-and-religious-identity-in-trinidad-volume-ii-orisa-9781478013921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}