Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Dianne M. Stewart analyzes the sacred poetics, religious imagination, and African heritage of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
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Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Dianne M. Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University and author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience and Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage.
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List of Abbreviations Used in Text ix Note on Orthography and Terminology xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction to Volume II 1 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad 9 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige 52 3. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power 83 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition 147 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora 221 Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana 249 List of Abbreviations Use in Notes 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 305 Index 327
List of Abbreviations Used in Text ix Note on Orthography and Terminology xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction to Volume II 1 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad 9 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige 52 3. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power 83 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition 147 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora 221 Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana 249 List of Abbreviations Use in Notes 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 305 Index 327
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