Vodou en Vogue - Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"--

Info autore

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha is assistant professor of religion at the University of Miami.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
• Editore: University Of North Carolina
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.06.2023
• EAN: 9781469674018
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-7401-8
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Where Religion Lives
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altro