Queering Black Atlantic religions, transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou, Roberto Strongman
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Queering Black Atlantic religions, transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou, Roberto Strongman
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Queering Black Atlantic religions
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bibliography
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1050453797
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Roberto Strongman
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The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Summary
Examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable,and external to the body
Table of contents
Of dreams and night-mares : Vodou women queering the body -- Hector Hyppolite èl Même : between queer fetishization and Vodou self-portraiture -- A chronology of queer Lucumí scholarship : degeneracy, ambivalence, transcorporeality -- Lucumí diasporic ethnography : Fran, Cabrera, Lam -- Queer Candomblé scholarship and Dona Flor's S/exua/lity -- Transatlantic waters of Oxalá : Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe
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