Spiritual Citizenship
Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
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2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822368731 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822368731 (ISBN)
Fadeke Castor explores the roles African religious practice play in the formation of social and political identities play in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago, showing how Ifa/Orisha practitioners build and perceive a sense of diasporic belonging that leads them to work toward black liberation and a decolonial future.
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how IfÁ/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 IfÁ/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 IfÁ/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.
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how IfÁ/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 IfÁ/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 IfÁ/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.
N. Fadeke Castor is Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Northeastern University.
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 YorÙbÁ-Centric Shrine 71
4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational 99
5. IfÁ in Trinidad's Ground 128
Appendixes I-III 169
Notes 179
Glossary 191
References 197
Index 221
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.12.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 24 photographs, incl. 10 in color |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780822368731 / 9780822368731 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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