Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou

by Roberto Strongman

Book Overview

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucum /Santer a, and Brazilian Candombl 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478003103
• ISBN13: 9781478003106
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"