Description
Book SynopsisThis volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for students in religious studies and scholars of the various religious movements examined. -- Ida Jones Journal of African American History 2008 Women and Religion in the African Diaspora both preserves and lovingly encompasses a multiplicity of black women's religious experiences. -- Stephen D. Glazier Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2009
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Diasporic Knowledge
Chapter 1. É a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
Chapter 2. "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad
Chapter 3. Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Honduras and New York
Chapter 4. Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church
Chapter 5. "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church
Part II: Power, Authority, and Subversion
Chapter 6. "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender
Chapter 7. "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists Debate the "Woman Question," 1870–1900
Chapter 8. "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work
Chapter 9. Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith
Part III: Performing Religion
Chapter 10. The Arts of Loving
Chapter 11. "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance
Chapter 12. Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging
Chapter 13. "But, It's Bible": African American Women and Television Preachers
Notes
About the Contributors
Index
