{"product_id":"spiritual-citizenship-9780822368953","title":"Spiritual Citizenship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFadeke Castor explores the roles African religious practice play in the formation of social and political identities play in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago, showing how Ifá\/Orisha practitioners build and perceive a sense of diasporic belonging that leads them to work toward black liberation and a decolonial future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author deftly describes the ritual practices of African-based religions in the African diaspora and highlights the role of international conferences in the formation of religious identity. Additionally, she successfully relates the contemporary Orisa movement in Trinidad to the 1970s Trinidad black power movement. . . . Castor does an outstanding job of portraying the flow of ritual and ritual performance. Highly recommended.\" -- S. D. Glazier * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpiritual Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e is an important text. . . . An essential teaching text on questions of multiculturalism, citizenship, race, and religion. Its engaging writing style on these timely issues and its focus on the under-studied (but fascinating) religious context of Trinidad make \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Citizenship \u003c\/i\u003ea must-read.\"  -- J. Brent Crosson * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpiritual Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking ethnography. . . . With vivid, engaging and descriptive writing, Castor examines how Ifá\/Orisha religious communities that were for decades persecuted and maligned have been re-evaluated in the context of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad—later defined as integral to the pluralistic and multicultural nation and simultaneously incorporated into transnational spiritual networks of priests and practitioners.\" -- Yolanda D. Covington-Ward * Transforming Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpiritual Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important ethnographic contribution to Caribbean anthropology and Afro-Atlantic history. . . . This study is notable for the unique and timely ethnographic contributions it makes.\" -- Keith E. McNeal * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"What this book does best is to show how competing transnational and national dynamics offer multiple possibilities for religious authority and achievement, and how these possibilities generate friction. . . . Given how well Castor writes herself and her processes of learning and initiation into the ethnography, the book offers insights on transforming returns at multiple levels.\" -- Paul Johnson * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Orthography  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Spiritual Engagements with Black Cultural Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Spirit of Black Power: An Ancestral Calling  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Multicultural Moments: From Margins to Mainstream  54\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Emerging Spiritual Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 3. Around the Bend: Festive Practices in a Yorùbá-Centric Shrine  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational  99\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ifá in Trinidad's Ground  128\u003cbr\u003e Appendixes I-III  169\u003cbr\u003e Notes  179\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  191\u003cbr\u003e References  197\u003cbr\u003e Index  221","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406104600919,"sku":"9780822368953","price":26.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822368953.jpg?v=1730494543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spiritual-citizenship-9780822368953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}