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Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

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Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Religion General General Sociology

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ISBN10: 1478001976
ISBN13: 9781478001973
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 10 2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé 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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