Danielle N Boaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1121194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle N Boaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle N |
| FAMILY NAME | Boaz |
| SIGNATURE | BOAZ D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9316-4124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Meanings of "Magic" for Africana Religious Communities
The contribution critically reviews the use of the category "magic" to demonize and criminalize Africana religious practices in the United States and Brazil. The characterization of Voodoo, Vodou, Candomblé, Santería and other African diasporic religions as "black magic" racializes and demonizes those practices simultaneously, and collaborates in their persecution.
Religious Racism and African Diaspora Religious Freedom
Public Perceptions of African Diaspora Religions in the United States
This article investigates public perceptions of African diaspora religions, especially Santeria and Vodou, in the United States. Relying on three public opinion surveys carried out in 2023 and 2024, it explores broad views of these religions as well as levels of knowledge and sources of information about them. Most significantly, this article interrogates whether public opinion surveys support scholars' frequent assertions that African diaspora r…
Banning Black Gods
Banning Black Gods
Religious Racism in Brazil
The six essays in this roundtable provide firsthand accounts by devotees and activists in Brazil who experienced incidents of religious racism or sought to bring the assailants to justice. Many such incidents, which include harassment, physical violence, and destruction of property, among other things, are perpetrated by members of evangelical Christian churches
Between “Essential Services” and Culpable Homicide
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared covid -19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—a global pandemic. As this coronavirus spread throughout the world, most countries implemented restrictions on public gatherings that greatly limited religious communities’ ability to engage in collective worship. Some religious leaders objected to these regulations, opining that faith would spare their congregants from illness or that …
Indian and Immigrant Religious Freedom
Although typically emphasised as part of a larger scheme to ban African-derived faiths, Obeah and vagrancy statutes in the Caribbean were also part of a widespread trend within the British Empire to bar Indian spiritual practices. Furthermore, anti-Obeah and related laws represent a longstanding form of immigrant regulation in the British Empire that began in the sixteenth century. Drawing upon on analysis of the history of Obeah and vagrancy sta…
The ‘Horrors of Imputed Witchcraft’, the ‘Cruelties of Paganism’, and the Colonial Project in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1830s–1870s
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British passed laws in most of their African colonies prohibiting any individual from accusing another of practising witchcraft and banning the consultation of ‘witch-doctors’ to identify practitioners of malefic rituals. Scholars have generally concurred that these laws were a natural outgrowth of England’s own decriminalisation of witchcraft, and represented an attempt to introduce Briti…
Spiritual Warfare" or "Crimes against Humanity"? Evangelized Drug Traffickers and Violence against Afro-Brazilian Religions in Rio de Janeiro
Since at least 2005, drug traffickers in the cities and favelas of the state of Rio de Janeiro have been carrying out systematic and violent assaults on Afro-Brazilian religious communities. Motivated by their conversion to sects of Evangelical Christianity that regard Afro-Brazilian religions as devil worship, the traffickers have forcibly expelled devotees of these faiths from their homes and temples, destroyed shrines and places of worship, an…
The "Abhorrent" Practice of Animal Sacrifice and Religious Discrimination in the Global South
In September 2018, the majority Buddhist government of Sri Lanka approved draft legislation banning animal sacrifice at Hindu Temples. The Cabinet referred to these sacrifices as a "primitive" practice that can cause physical and mental harm to society. Similarly, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil is presently evaluating the constitutionality of a proposed bill banning animal sacrifice in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Proponents of this bill …
Obeah, Vagrancy, and the Boundaries of Religious Freedom
The practice of obeah, a term used to refer to a variety of African derived spiritual practices, remains proscribed in at least fourteen countries or territories in the Anglophone Caribbean today. This article examines the historical development of these laws and the significance of the continued prohibition of obeah. Although obeah laws were initially modeled on British statutes banning vagrancy and witchcraft, and were passed during a period wh…
Introducing Religious Reparations
Western bookstores today are full of small boxes that advertise “Voodoo Revenge Kit” on the front. Their short descriptions encourage anyone who wishes to harm a cheating lover and curse a difficult boss to buy this product. Companies now sell t-shirts, mugs, buttons and key chains with “voodoo dolls,” and bound figures with needles through the heart. Novels, newspapers, and movies have, for over a century, produced representations of human sacri…
Obeah, Vagrancy, and the Boundaries of Religious Freedom
The practice of obeah, a term used to refer to a variety of African derived spiritual practices, remains proscribed in at least fourteen countries or territories in the Anglophone Caribbean today. This article examines the historical development of these laws and the significance of the continued prohibition of obeah. Although obeah laws were initially modeled on British statutes banning vagrancy and witchcraft, and were passed during a period wh…
Religious Racism in Brazil
The six essays in this roundtable provide firsthand accounts by devotees and activists in Brazil who experienced incidents of religious racism or sought to bring the assailants to justice. Many such incidents, which include harassment, physical violence, and destruction of property, among other things, are perpetrated by members of evangelical Christian churches
The "Abhorrent" Practice of Animal Sacrifice and Religious Discrimination in the Global South
In September 2018, the majority Buddhist government of Sri Lanka approved draft legislation banning animal sacrifice at Hindu Temples. The Cabinet referred to these sacrifices as a "primitive" practice that can cause physical and mental harm to society. Similarly, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil is presently evaluating the constitutionality of a proposed bill banning animal sacrifice in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Proponents of this bill …
Introducing Religious Reparations
Western bookstores today are full of small boxes that advertise “Voodoo Revenge Kit” on the front. Their short descriptions encourage anyone who wishes to harm a cheating lover and curse a difficult boss to buy this product. Companies now sell t-shirts, mugs, buttons and key chains with “voodoo dolls,” and bound figures with needles through the heart. Novels, newspapers, and movies have, for over a century, produced representations of human sacri…
Obeah, Vagrancy, and the Boundaries of Religious Freedom
The practice of obeah, a term used to refer to a variety of African derived spiritual practices, remains proscribed in at least fourteen countries or territories in the Anglophone Caribbean today. This article examines the historical development of these laws and the significance of the continued prohibition of obeah. Although obeah laws were initially modeled on British statutes banning vagrancy and witchcraft, and were passed during a period wh…
The "Abhorrent" Practice of Animal Sacrifice and Religious Discrimination in the Global South
In September 2018, the majority Buddhist government of Sri Lanka approved draft legislation banning animal sacrifice at Hindu Temples. The Cabinet referred to these sacrifices as a "primitive" practice that can cause physical and mental harm to society. Similarly, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil is presently evaluating the constitutionality of a proposed bill banning animal sacrifice in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Proponents of this bill …
Between “Essential Services” and Culpable Homicide
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared covid -19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—a global pandemic. As this coronavirus spread throughout the world, most countries implemented restrictions on public gatherings that greatly limited religious communities’ ability to engage in collective worship. Some religious leaders objected to these regulations, opining that faith would spare their congregants from illness or that …
Indian and Immigrant Religious Freedom
Although typically emphasised as part of a larger scheme to ban African-derived faiths, Obeah and vagrancy statutes in the Caribbean were also part of a widespread trend within the British Empire to bar Indian spiritual practices. Furthermore, anti-Obeah and related laws represent a longstanding form of immigrant regulation in the British Empire that began in the sixteenth century. Drawing upon on analysis of the history of Obeah and vagrancy sta…
The ‘Horrors of Imputed Witchcraft’, the ‘Cruelties of Paganism’, and the Colonial Project in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1830s–1870s
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British passed laws in most of their African colonies prohibiting any individual from accusing another of practising witchcraft and banning the consultation of ‘witch-doctors’ to identify practitioners of malefic rituals. Scholars have generally concurred that these laws were a natural outgrowth of England’s own decriminalisation of witchcraft, and represented an attempt to introduce Briti…
Spiritual Warfare" or "Crimes against Humanity"? Evangelized Drug Traffickers and Violence against Afro-Brazilian Religions in Rio de Janeiro
Since at least 2005, drug traffickers in the cities and favelas of the state of Rio de Janeiro have been carrying out systematic and violent assaults on Afro-Brazilian religious communities. Motivated by their conversion to sects of Evangelical Christianity that regard Afro-Brazilian religions as devil worship, the traffickers have forcibly expelled devotees of these faiths from their homes and temples, destroyed shrines and places of worship, an…
Banning Black Gods
Banning Black Gods
Religious Racism in Brazil
The six essays in this roundtable provide firsthand accounts by devotees and activists in Brazil who experienced incidents of religious racism or sought to bring the assailants to justice. Many such incidents, which include harassment, physical violence, and destruction of property, among other things, are perpetrated by members of evangelical Christian churches
Religious Racism and African Diaspora Religious Freedom
Public Perceptions of African Diaspora Religions in the United States
This article investigates public perceptions of African diaspora religions, especially Santeria and Vodou, in the United States. Relying on three public opinion surveys carried out in 2023 and 2024, it explores broad views of these religions as well as levels of knowledge and sources of information about them. Most significantly, this article interrogates whether public opinion surveys support scholars' frequent assertions that African diaspora r…
Meanings of "Magic" for Africana Religious Communities
The contribution critically reviews the use of the category "magic" to demonize and criminalize Africana religious practices in the United States and Brazil. The characterization of Voodoo, Vodou, Candomblé, Santería and other African diasporic religions as "black magic" racializes and demonizes those practices simultaneously, and collaborates in their persecution.
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