Search Results for Afro-Atlantic religions

... The shared insights of psychoanalysis and the Afro-Atlantic religions are used here to highlight the ambivalent nature of the empowered things at the core of the social organizations constituted by both psychoanalysis and the Afro-Atlantic religions. This chapter explores the meaning...

... Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis fetishism ambivalence Oedipus complex Afro-Atlantic religions ...

... Freud's insecurities about his race and his sexual orientation shaped psychoanalysis and inspired divinations about the human personality that uncannily resemble underdeveloped versions of the Afro-Atlantic religions. In pursuit of a livelihood and in a defensive response to the anti...

... This chapter discusses the conceptions of value and agency embodied in the human-made gods of the Afro-Atlantic religions and the class interests they encode—interests very different from but no less contextually reasonable than those propagated by Hegel, Marx, and Freud. The implications...

... Daily parlance in most of the Afro-Atlantic religions suggests that it is people who make gods. However, priests debate the implications of that formulation. Like the Afro-Atlantic gods themselves, the question of whether they are human-made arises in the context of an intergenerational...

... Freud's insecurities about his race and his sexual orientation shaped psychoanalysis and inspired divinations about the human personality that uncannily resemble underdeveloped versions of the Afro-Atlantic religions. Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis fetishism the unconscious ambivalence ...

... This chapter discusses the conceptions of value and agency embodied in the human-made gods of the Afro-Atlantic religions and the class interests they encode—interests very different from but no less contextually reasonable than those propagated by Hegel, Marx, and Freud. The implications...

... This introduction explains some fundamental concepts and the history of the Afro-Atlantic religions, a pivotal moment of which—the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century encounter of European and African troops on the West African coast—should influence not only these religions but also the European...

... The materials used to create the altars and the insignia of the Afro-Atlantic religions reflect their roots in West African polities intensely embedded in interregional commerce, including a half millennium of commercial exchange with Europe and the Americas. The ritual assembly...

... as an epistemology, captured here as the historically specific, creative, and outrageous choreography of black and Caribbean gender. MilDred Gerestant Haitian Vodou lwa Afro-Atlantic genders Caribbean epistemology ...

... This chapter explores John Marrant’s early childhood and reconstructs the religious worlds he encountered in New York City; St. Augustine, Florida; and Savannah, Georgia. In each urban center, Black communities nurtured rich Africana religious cultures. In New York, Afro-Iberian fraternal...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...

... reply, 115–23. Thoughtfully diverging views appear in James M. McPherson, “Who Freed the Slave?”, in Drawn with the Sword, 192–207; George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971...