Queering Black Atlantic Religions : Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou /

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Roberto Strongman examines three Afro-diasporic religions--Hatian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomble--to demonstrate how the commingling of humans and the divine during trance possession produce subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strongman, Roberto, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vodou.
Sex > Religious aspects.
Santeria.
Religions > African influences.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects.
Christianity > African influences.
Candomble (Religion)
African diaspora.
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Candomble > Bresil.
Santeria (Culte) > Cuba.
Vaudou > Haïti.
Homosexualite > Aspect religieux.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Candomble (Religion) > Brazil.
Santeria > Cuba.
Vodou > Haiti.
Haiti.
Cuba.
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Indroduction: enter the Igbodu
  • Of dreams and night-mares : Vodou women queering the body
  • Hector Hyppolite el Même : between queer fetishization and Vodou self-portraiture
  • A chronology of queer Lucumí scholarship : degeneracy, ambivalence, transcorporeality
  • Lucumí diasporic ethnography : Fran, Cabrera, Lam
  • Queer Candomble scholarship and Dona Flor's S/exua/lity
  • Transatlantic waters of Oxalá : Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomble in Europe.

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