Castor N. Fadeke Castor

Spiritual Citizenship (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifa in Trinidad

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Produktbeschreibung

In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifa/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for African diasporic religions to enter mainstream Trinidadian society. She establishes how the postcolonial performance of Ifa/Orisha practices in Trinidad fosters a sense of belonging that invigorates its practitioners to work toward freedom, equality, and social justice. Demonstrating how spirituality is inextricable from the political project of black liberation, Castor illustrates the ways in which Ifa/Orisha beliefs and practices offer Trinidadians the means to strengthen belonging throughout the diaspora, access past generations, heal historical wounds, and envision a decolonial future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372585
• Artikelnr.: 54790494

Autorenporträt

N. Fadeke Castor

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Orthography  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
Part I. Spiritual Engagements with Black Cultural Citizenship
1. The Spirit of Black Power: An Ancestral Calling  25
2. Multicultural Moments: From Margins to Mainstream  54
Part II. Emerging Spiritual Citizenship
3. Around the Bend: Festive Practices in a Yorùbá-Centric Shrine  71
4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational  99
5. Ifá in Trinidad's Ground  128
Appendixes I-III  169
Notes  179
Glossary  191
References  197
Index  221