Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People)
ISBN-13:
9781478001973
ISBN-10:
1478001976
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Roberto Strongman
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781478001973
ISBN-10:
1478001976
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Roberto Strongman
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
Summary
Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People) (ISBN-13: 9781478001973 and ISBN-10: 1478001976), written by authors
Roberto Strongman, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2019.
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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé 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 body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.
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