Indigenous and African diaspora religions in the Americas /

Indigenous 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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hebblethwaite, Benjamin (Editor), Jansen, Silke (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Indians > Religion.
Black people > America > Religion.
Peuples autochtones > Religion.
Personnes noires > Amérique > Religion.
RELIGION / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
Black people > Religion
Indians > Religion
Religion
America > Religion.
Amérique > Religion.
America
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Meeting Grounds in Saint-Domingue and the Emergence of Haitian Vodou
  • 2. The Many Faces of Marie Laveau and Voudou in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
  • 3. Shamanic Healing, Initiation, and Ritual Technique in a Kwak'wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus
  • 4. Language and Rituals of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Kongos of Villa Mella
  • 5. A Joyful Place: Baniwa Jaguar Shamans' Songs and Historical Change
  • 6. Embodying, Reshaping, and Combining the Past and the Future: A Mapuche Shaman's Historical Agency in Chile
  • 7. Other Knowledges: Tensions and Negotiation between Religion, Knowledges, and School in a Wixárika Community
  • 8. It's the Song That Cures: Healing, Music, and Ayahuasca in Brazil's Santo Daime Churches
  • 9. Finding Orisha in New Places
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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