Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora:

Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora:
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1989-07-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This bibliography is the most comprehensive available on the subject of African and Afro-American traditional religion and healing. By covering works from 1760 to the present, this bibliography offers not only the most up-to-date information on the subject, but also the most complete bibliographic survey of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin religious traditions yet compiled. Consequently, researchers will be able to begin to develop an understanding of one of the most important cultural components of the rapidly growing Caribbean population in the United States. Nearly 6,000 entries on all aspects of the black religious heritage cite, in seven different languages, the broadest range of media possible, e.g. films, videos, books, dissertations, unpublished papers, and periodical and newspaper articles. Included are sections on art, music, dance, and theatre, as well as a selected list of works on related topics such as trance and spirit possession, comparative religion, and glossolalia. Created with the researcher in mind, Ashe is divided into such general categories as regional studies, ethnic group studies, and a number of more specialized subject categories. This reference work will also offer a key to those interested in understanding the tremendous growth of African-derived religious traditions in South America and their long-range sociopolitical ramifications. For students and scholars of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro-America, whether they be anthropologists, sociologists, health care workers, ethnomusicologists, or historians, this bibliography offers a much needed resource guide to one of the most vital facets of black world culture.

Manipulating the Sacred

Manipulating the Sacred
Author: Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780814328521

The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals. At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara contributes strikingly rich insights as a participant/observer in the African-based religions of Brazil. She focuses on the symbolism and function of ritual objects and costumes used in the Brazilian Candomblé (miniature "African" environments or temples) of the Bahia region, which combine Yorùbá, Bantu/Angola, Caboclo, Roman Catholic, and/or Kardecist/Spiritist elements. An initiate herself with more than twenty years of study, the author is considered an insider, and has witnessed how practitioners manipulate the "sacred" to encode, in art and ritual, vital knowledge about meaning, values, epistemologies, and history. She demonstrates how this manipulation provides Brazilian descendents of slaves with a sense of agency--with a link to their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture.

Perspectives on Africa

Perspectives on Africa
Author: Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2010-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1444335227

The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization

African Witchcraft and Otherness

African Witchcraft and Otherness
Author: Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791449905

A bold work of African philosophy and theology that brings together witchcraft and the philosophy of Levinas.

Current Catalog

Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release:
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2
Author: Christina Pratt
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781404210417

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

Must God Remain Greek?

Must God Remain Greek?
Author: Robert Earl Hood
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 292
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451417265

"Must God Remain Greek? brings together, in a fascinating and readable way, the cultural and religious thought and activities of African peoples, Caribbeans, and Afro-Americans to bear upon Christian theology. As a scholar Dr. Hood is at home in the three regions, as well as in the Western Christian tradition. He raises fundamental questions for theology, which have tremendous consequences in the present day of Christian expansion and ecumenical movement.... It is refreshing to see an old problem recast in cultural areas where Christianity is throbbing and thriving."? John S. Mbiti

Re-Inventing Africa

Re-Inventing Africa
Author: Ifi Amadiume
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781856495349

This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux

The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux
Author: Ina J. Fandrich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135872929

This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.