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Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance

R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction (page ix)
  • PART I DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE
    • 1 É a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (RACHEL ELIZABETH HARDING, page 3)
    • 2 "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad (TRACEY E. HUCKS, page 19)
    • 3 Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garífuna in Hondurus and New York (PAUL CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, page 37)
    • 4 Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church (ISABEL MUKONYORA, page 59)
    • 5 "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church (DEIDRE HELEN CRUMBLEY, page 81)
  • PART II POWER, AUTHORITY, AND SUBVERSION
    • 6 "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender (WALLACE BEST, page 101)
    • 7 "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists debate the "Woman Question," 1870-1900 (MARTHA S. JONES, page 128)
    • 8 "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work (ANTHEA D. BUTLER, page 155)
    • 9 Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith (CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES, page 179)
  • PART III PERFORMING RELIGION
    • 10 The Art of Loving (LISA GAIL COLLINS, page 199)
    • 11 "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance (JUDITH WEISENFELD, page 222)
    • 12 Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Women Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging (CAROLYN ROUSE, page 245)
    • 13 "But. It's Bible": African American Women and Television Preachers (MARLA FREDERICK-MCGLATHERY, page 266)
  • Notes (page 293)
  • About the Contributors (page 357)
  • Index (page 361)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAAH 93.1 (Winter 2008): 125-127 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064273
JSSR 48.1 (Mar. 2009): 204-206 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20486998
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Published: c2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801883705 (paper)
  • 9780801883699 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Religion
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