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Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496236470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the AmericasDDC classification:
  • 200.97
LOC classification:
  • BL2500.I53 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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