Queering Black Atlantic Religions : Transcorporeality in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou PDF
by Strongman Roberto Strongman
Part of the Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People series
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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble 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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- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:14/03/2019
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
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- ISBN:9781478003458
