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...Jorge L. Giovannetti Small Axe Incorporated 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Elusive Organization of “Identity”: Race, Religion, and Empire Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba Jorge L...

... and the Shouters Prohibition Ordinance in Trinidad and Tobago. Adherents of these latter religions mobilised arguments in favour of religious freedom to campaign for the repeal of the Ordinances, while similar arguments proved harder to make for obeah. `Obeah Acts' argues that this is because the colonial...

... performed important ideological labor: it not only stripped abolition of any semblance of apology, it shielded private profiteering from public or political scrutiny, emancipating the pursuit of material self-interest from any moral fetters. Thus did mammon assert its priority over humanity and religion...

... the racialization of the “Black” informs competing responses to anti-Blackness among Black and non-Black communities, this essay weighs the usefulness of Gordon’s metareflective framing for understanding the tension and significance of religion and moral claims in developing theories of freedom within Black...

... Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Frances Henry, Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Socio-political Legitimation of the Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2003), 32. In his comparative study of the Spiritual Baptist faith...

... religion “We can’t write plays about voodoo [ sic ]!” These words, pronounced by the General and soon-to-be Emperor Dessalines in C. L. R. James’s 1967 play The Black Jacobins , augur the tragedy (at least, as James perceived it) of the Haitian Revolution: for James, the increased detachment...

... unmapped and to resist decoding, yet be a continuous fountain of creativity of one sort or another, is itself the sign of the loa. In attempting to read a still-guarded religion, there is room for generalizations and misinterpretations. Because I am, admittedly, unfamiliar with the lived practices...

... of traditional African philosophy” (pp. 22–28), Henry discusses the “identity-forming and behavior-regulating signifi cance of origin narratives.” In some African religions, a pantheon of deities occupies the pinnacle of spirit being, whereas in others it is the First Ancestor and a hierarchy...

... history Caribbean religion Ras Bupe Karudi Tanzania In August 1986, a Rastaman roamed the streets of Kingston encouraging other Rastafari to leave Jamaica permanently. In particular, he searched for Rastafari elders who shared both his intellectual commitments and his deep desire to repatriate...

... Witte, “Heritage, Identity, and the Body in Afro-Dutch Self-Styling,” Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie 12 (2017): 127–45; on Winti and the political, see Markus Balkenhol, “Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands,” in Leerom...

..., the art of William Berryman, the beauty and pain of belonging and diaspora, and ancestral power. T errence L. J ohnson is the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies. His research interests encompass African American political thought, ethics, American religions...

... governed the progress of civilized peoples also apply to backward ones, reassuring them that if they exert themselves they will achieve their dreams of glory and grandeur A careful reading of Firmin’s passages on the religion of black populations announces a Boasian...

..., as in one of the rooms in Price’s imagined “First-Time Museum,” displaying the Saramaka creation, during the “war between unequals,” of a new society and culture—religion, economic and political systems, and language—based on collective African knowledge and inter-African syn- cretism [173 Learning...

..., see W. F. Elkins, “William Lauron DeLaurence and Jamaican Folk Religion,” Folklore 97, no. 2 (1986): 215–18; in Dominica, see Mantz, “Lost in the Fire.” 43 I would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for inviting me to pursue this issue here. The Grand Grimoire or Dragon rouge (1997...

... religion and culture in the black Atlantic. If this is the case—that healing traditions of African origin are characterized by their adaptability—there is no reason to assume that the treatments offered by black ritual practitioners were somehow more intelligible to people of African descent than...

... examines the parallel constructions of religious superiority and the conceit of Western thought. D e European attitude to the religions of the Amerindian peoples encountered in the Americas was fairly similar to Europe’s conception of the religious and cultural practices of Africans and other groups...

... is not a dancing bear.”16 On the other end of the spectrum, in regard to the practices of African-derived cultural, healing, and religious practices, it is well researched that dance is central to the practice of African-derived religions, such as Vodou, which, as historian Kate Ramsey documents, since 1825...

...- liantly costumed and choreographed: a franchise entirely owned and operated by one family. What may be deduced from Papa Doc’s couture is the determinate role Haiti’s national religion of Vodou plays in its art and politics. But caveat lector: that role is “overdetermined...

... on the visuality of suffering with work on music and emotion in order to explore the links between singing and meaning making, between humanitarianism and culture, between American civil religion and neoliberalism, and between the photojournalism of disaster and the musicology of the disaster...

.... This meant that in the same breath, he had to also appeal to divine authority to intervene in the prevailing order, a sleight of hand that would not have been unfamiliar to those hailed by his vision. As Val writes, “Religious ideas and the rhetoric of religion became central to clarifying an alternative...