Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas offers an introduction and nine original perspectives on religious and cultural traditions emanating from communities in several regions across the Americas.
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas offers an introduction and nine original perspectives on religious and cultural traditions emanating from communities in several regions across the Americas.
Benjamin Hebblethwaite is an associate professor in Haitian Creole, Haitian, and Francophone studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou and coeditor of Stirring the Pot of Haitian History. Silke Jansen is a professor of Romance linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. She is the author of several publications on language and culture contacts in the Caribbean.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas: Multidisciplinary Approaches Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen
1. Meeting Grounds in Saint-Domingue and the Emergence of Haitian Vodou; An Ecological Approach LeGrace Benson
2. The Many Faces of Marie Laveau and Voudou in Nineteenth-century New Orleans Eleanor A. Laughlin
3. Shamanic Healing, Initiation, and Ritual Technique in a Kwak’wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus Daniel J. Frim 4. Language and Rituals of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Kongos of Villa Mella José María Santos Rovira
5. “A Joyful Place”: Baniwa Jaguar Shamans’ Songs and Historical Change Robin M. Wright
6. Embodying, Reshaping, and Combining the Past and the Future: A Mapuche Shaman’s Historical Agency in Chile Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
7. Other Knowledges: Tensions and Negotiation between Religion, Knowledges, and School in a Wixárika community Francisco Iritamei Benítez de la Cruz and Itxaso García Chapinal
8. “It’s the Song that Cures”: Healing, Music, and Ayahuasca in Brazil’s Santo Daime Churches Dereck Daschke
9. Finding Orisha in New Places Jeffery M. Gonzalez
Introduction: Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas: Multidisciplinary Approaches Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen
1. Meeting Grounds in Saint-Domingue and the Emergence of Haitian Vodou; An Ecological Approach LeGrace Benson
2. The Many Faces of Marie Laveau and Voudou in Nineteenth-century New Orleans Eleanor A. Laughlin
3. Shamanic Healing, Initiation, and Ritual Technique in a Kwak’wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus Daniel J. Frim 4. Language and Rituals of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Kongos of Villa Mella José María Santos Rovira
5. “A Joyful Place”: Baniwa Jaguar Shamans’ Songs and Historical Change Robin M. Wright
6. Embodying, Reshaping, and Combining the Past and the Future: A Mapuche Shaman’s Historical Agency in Chile Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
7. Other Knowledges: Tensions and Negotiation between Religion, Knowledges, and School in a Wixárika community Francisco Iritamei Benítez de la Cruz and Itxaso García Chapinal
8. “It’s the Song that Cures”: Healing, Music, and Ayahuasca in Brazil’s Santo Daime Churches Dereck Daschke
9. Finding Orisha in New Places Jeffery M. Gonzalez
Contributors Notes Index
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