Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• YOLANDA COVINGTON-WARD
• JEANETTE S. JOUILI
• Yolanda Covington-Ward
• Jeanette S. Jouili

Titel

Introduction: Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas

Ist Teil von

• Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas, 2021, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Melodically rocking Sufi bodies remember God on a former plantation in South Carolina, reconnecting with ancestors and an imagined homeland. Dancers in Martinique use the sound of the bèlè drum to achieve emotional transcendence and resist alienation caused by centuries of French assimilation. Devotees of Mama Tchamba in Togo use shuffling steps, dress, and ritual to placate the spirits of formerly enslaved people from the North whom their own ancestors bought and sold. All of these examples foreground one thing: the role of the body specifically in the shaping, transmitting, and remaking of African and African diasporic religions and religious