Spiritual citizenship : transnational pathways from black power to IFÁ in Trinidad

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    • Castor, N. Fadeke

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Spiritual citizenship : transnational pathways from black power to IFÁ in Trinidad

N. Fadeke Castor

Duke University Press, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-219) and index

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内容説明

In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifa/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for African diasporic religions to enter mainstream Trinidadian society. She establishes how the postcolonial performance of Ifa/Orisha practices in Trinidad fosters a sense of belonging that invigorates its practitioners to work toward freedom, equality, and social justice. Demonstrating how spirituality is inextricable from the political project of black liberation, Castor illustrates the ways in which Ifa/Orisha beliefs and practices offer Trinidadians the means to strengthen belonging throughout the diaspora, access past generations, heal historical wounds, and envision a decolonial future.

目次

Note on Orthography ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Spiritual Engagements with Black Cultural Citizenship 1. The Spirit of Black Power: An Ancestral Calling 25 2. Multicultural Moments: From Margins to Mainstream 54 Part II. Emerging Spiritual Citizenship 3. Around the Bend: Festive Practices in a Yoruba-Centric Shrine 71 4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational 99 5. Ifa in Trinidad's Ground 128 Appendixes I-III 169 Notes 179 Glossary 191 References 197 Index 221

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