... In August 2018, scant media attention was given to the dozens of Afro-religious community members, representing a variety of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, who occupied the municipal legislative chamber in Rio de Janeiro. They did so to defend animal sacrifice, which is sanctioned...

... Afro-religious terreiro communities religious racism Black activism ...

... organizations that have emerged in recent years. Maracanã recognition government Indigenous people sovereignty In August 2018, scant media attention was given to the dozens of Afro-religious community members, representing a variety of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, who occupied...

... of history and literature guides the examination of the five historical events that underscore the argument of each chapter: the murders of the Galindo Virgins during the Haitian unification of Hispaniola (1822–44), the killing of Afro-religious leader Olivorio Mateo during US Occupation of the Dominican...

... In the introduction, the author embarks on a journey driven by spiritual encounters with research on police violence. Starting from her profound explorations of Afro-Latiné religious practices, the author uncovers a distressing pattern of hidden deaths that occur during violent police encounters...

... The chapter’s argument is grounded on close readings of military records related to the persecution and killing of the Afro-Dominican religious leader Olivorio Mateo at the hands of the U.S. Marines during the Occupation of 1916–24. The official Marine records are studied in tandem with Afro...

... The hierarchy of Cuba’s Catholic Church slowly adjusted to worldwide progressive currents of the 1960s, such as the Second Vatican Council, while in 1975 Fidel characterized Cuba as an “Afro-Latin” country committed to global anticolonial struggles. The 1985 publication of Fidel and Religion...

... history; and an extract from the writings of Camilo Torres, who advocated revolution. Religious Pluralities<subtitle>Faith, Intolerance, Politics, and Accommodation</subtitle> Catholicism in Colombia Judaism in Colombia Afro-Colombians Albalucia Ángel Camilo Torres ...

... against Palmares during the seventeenth century and its legacies after that. Part II, “People,” examines the human lives and diasporas emanating out of Palmares. Part III, “Spirits,” discusses African and Afro-diasporic religious beliefs and practices. Part IV, “Places,” employs environmental history...

... in the Enlightenment's derogatory rhetorical uses of the African religious Other. Here the author introduces a Candomblé temple in a fashionable district of Berlin and a range of Afro-Atlantic priests who, in real historical time, talk back to these two-preeminent theorists of the so-called fetish. Enlightenment...

... in this case, which ended up in the US Supreme Court. By exploring the role of religion in the lives of Wetli and his associates, the author investigates the relationship between researchers and their subject matter. Even as Wetli distanced himself from the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions, the chapter...

... to Cuba and picked sides within the nation’s debates over religious identity. Encuentro Nacional Eclesial Cubana (ENEC) Fourth Party Congress Afro-Cuban religion rafters Pope John Paul II ...

... 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 offers a comparative perspective on the relationship between the social and the aesthetic by contrasting the development of an Afro-modernist aesthetic of politics and music in American jazz improvisation of the 1950s and 1960s and the aesthetics of sensibilisation...

... 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...

... readings of military records related to the persecution and killing of the Afro-Dominican religious leader Olivorio Mateo at the hands of the U.S. Marines during the Occupation of 1916–24. The official Marine records are studied in tandem with Afro-Dominican salves , interviews, photographs, letters...

..., the theoretical and the musical halves of Track 4.0 bring attention to the complexities of being Black and German, both in relation to other Black diasporic populations and within the context of the shifting administrative and ideological borders of the German nation-state. R&amp;B music spirituality Afro...

... Encuentro Nacional Eclesial Cubana (ENEC) Fourth Party Congress Afro-Cuban religion rafters Pope John Paul II ...