Vodou en vogue :: fashioning Black divinities in Haiti and the United States /

"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthe...

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1. Verfasser: Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Where religion lives.
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Zusammenfassung:"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469674032
1469674033
9781469674025
1469674025
9798890861801

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