Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252072057 ISBN 13: 9780252072055

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2005

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In Fragments of Bone, thirteen essayists discuss African religions as forms of resistance and survival in the face of Western cultural hegemony and imperialism. The collection presents scholars working outside of the Western tradition with backgrounds in a variety of disciplines, genders, and nationalities. These experts draw on research, fieldwork, personal interviews, and spiritual introspection to support a provocative thesis: that fragments of ancestral traditions are fluidly interwoven into New World African religions as creolized rituals, symbolic systems, and cultural identities.

Contributors: Osei-Mensah Aborampah, Niyi Afolabi, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Randy P. Conner, T. J. Desch-Obi, Ina Johanna Fandrich, Kean Gibson, Marilyn Houlberg, Nancy B. Mikelsons, Roberto Nodal, Rafael Ocasio, Miguel "Willie" Ramos, and Denise Ferreira da Silva

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Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, is the author of Haiti: The Breached Citadel and other books.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252072057
• ISBN 13: 9780252072055
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: Bellegarde-Smith Patrick
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