Queering Black Atlantic Religions : Transcorporeality in Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou

by Roberto Strongman

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

ISBN-10 1478003103

ISBN-13 9781478003106

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 10th, 2019

Print length 277 Pages

Weight 448 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.90 x 2.80 cms

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In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble 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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