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Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World

Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World

Woodbine, Onaje X. O.

Hardcover

Religion General Black American Studies

ISBN10: 0231197160
ISBN13: 9780231197168
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the spirit realm. In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.

Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

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