In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban LucumĂ/SanterĂa, and Brazilian CandomblĂ© 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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Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in CandomblĂ©, SanterĂa, and Vodou
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Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in CandomblĂ©, SanterĂa, and Vodou
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2019Print ISBN
9781478003106
9781478001973
eBook ISBN
9781478003458
Topic
Theology & ReligionSubtopic
Ethnic & Tribal ReligionTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Enter the Igbodu
- Part I. Vodou
- Part II. LucumĂ/SanterĂa
- Part III. Candomblé
- Conclusion: Transcripturality
- Notes
- References
- Index
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