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What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices.
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the primary beliefs and practices of these faiths. It begins with a comprehensive overview of Vodou, Santeria, and other African-based religions. The second section includes extensive, revealing interviews with practitioners who offer insight into the intersection of their beliefs, their sexual orientation, and their gender identity. Finally, it provides a powerful analysis of the ways these traditions have inspired artists, musicians, and writers such as Audre Lorde, as well as informative interviews with the artists themselves.
In Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions, you will discover: how the presence of androgynous divinities affects both faith and practice in Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, and other Creole religions
how the phenomenon of possession or embodiment by a god or goddess may validate queer identity and nurture gender complexity
who practices the African-derived spiritual traditions, what they believe, and who their deities are
how these faiths have influenced the art and aesthetic traditions of the West
This landmark book opens a fascinating new world of thought and belief. The authors provide rigorous documentation and faultless scholarly method as well as personal experience and the testimony of believers. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions sheds new light on two widely different fields: LGBT studies and the theology of the African diaspora. A thorough bibliography points the way to further study, and an extensive photograph gallery provides a unique look at the believers and their practices. Every library with holdings in queer theory, African mythology, or sociology of religion should have this landmark volume.
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African-inspired spiritual traditions or religions are practiced in various places in the Americas, the Caribbean, Western Europe, and elsewhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay male practitioners, transsexual practitioners, gender complexity, iwa pele, divinatory consultations, spiritual functionaries, male orishá, transgender woman, transgender behavior, spiritual household, sexual complexity, transgender women, homoerotic inclination, inclined males, transgender persons, destructive magic, queer persons, transsexual persons, gay priest, numerous practitioners, inclined men, spiritual name Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, San Francisco, Mama Lola, Pomba Gira, Lezama Lima, Native American, Ocha'ni Lele, Ezili Freda, Lydia Cabrera, Bay Area, Fernández Robaína, Eduardo Mejía, Puerto Rican, Habana Vieja, Luisah Teish, New Orleans, Audre Lorde, Gede Nibo, Gloria Anzaldúa, Houngan Aboudja, Hubert Fichte, Mambo Racine, Odí Meji, Puerto Rico New!
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