Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
(Part of the Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series)
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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucum /Santer a, and Brazilian Candombl 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1478003103
ISBN13:9781478003106
Release Date:May 2019
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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