{"product_id":"women-and-religion-in-the-african-diaspora-knowlegde-power-and-performance-9780801883705","title":"Women and Religion in the African Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Diasporic Knowledge \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. É a Senzala: \u003ci\u003eSlavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors\": \u003ci\u003eWomen in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Joining the African Diaspora: \u003ci\u003eMigration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Honduras and New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Women of the African Diaspora Within: \u003ci\u003eThe Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"Power in the Blood\":\u003ci\u003e Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Power, Authority, and Subversion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. \"The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit\": \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \"Make Us a Power\": \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Methodists Debate the \"Woman Question,\" 1870–1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. \"Only a Woman Would Do\":\u003ci\u003e Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Exploring the Religious Connection: \u003ci\u003eBlack Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Performing Religion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Arts of Loving \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. \"Truths that Liberate the Soul\": \u003ci\u003eEva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Shopping with Sister Zubayda: \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. \"But, It's Bible\": \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Women and Television Preachers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527623221591,"sku":"9780801883705","price":31.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801883705.jpg?v=1731868587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-religion-in-the-african-diaspora-knowlegde-power-and-performance-9780801883705","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}