Yvonne Chireau

Biographic Data

ID308895
NAMEYvonne Chireau
GIVEN NAMESYvonne
FAMILY NAMEChireau
SIGNATURECHIREAU Y
AFFILIATIONSSwarthmore College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931-1993

    Open AccessYvonne ChireauARTICLEReligions2019References: 15

    Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity, Islam, Africana (African diaspora) religions, and folk traditions such as Hoodoo and Conjure in the 20th century. Even though the treatment of Black religions in the comics was informed by stereoty…

  • Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions . By Elizabeth Pérez

    Yvonne ChireauARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2016

    Religion in the Kitchen by Elizabeth Pérez is a stunning achievement, both for its methodological sophistication and its timely focus. The book is an ethnography of a Chicago-based community called Ilé Laroye, home to the venerable and enduring Yoruba deities known as orishas in the Afro-Cuban tradition of Lucumí. With a sumptuous and evocative narrative, Pérez considers the ways that religious subjectivities are produced in the most ordinary of …

  • Theorizing Africana Religions

    Su''Ad Abdul Khabeer, Yvonne Chireau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Africana Religions2014

    These edited proceedings of a 2013 symposium at Northwestern University are organized around the question of how to theorize the study of Africana religions across wide expanses of time and space. An international body of scholars representing the fields of history, religious studies, anthropology, American studies, sociology, African studies, classics, and African American studies gathered in a two-day event to consider the past, present, and fu…

  • Conjure in African American Society

    Yvonne P Chireau, Yvonne Chireau et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Santeria: Correcting the Myths and Uncovering the Realities of a Growing Religion. By Mary Ann Clark

    Open AccessYvonne ChireauARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2007

  • Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

    Open AccessYvonne P Chireau, Yvonne ChireauARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2006

    Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, Yvonne P. Chireau describes Conjure and related practices, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, in a beautifully written, richly detaile…

  • Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

    Yvonne P Chireau, Yvonne ChireauARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…2005

    Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, Yvonne P. Chireau describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, in a beautifully written,…

  • Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

    Yvonne ChireauARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2004Cited by: 1

    Book Review| October 01 2004 Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau, Martha Ward. Yvonne Chireau Yvonne Chireau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 24 (1): 154–155. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501556 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yvonne Chireau; Voodoo Queen: …

  • Black MagicReligion and the African American Conjuring Tradition: Religion and the African American conjuring tradition

    Yvonne Chireau, Yvonne Patricia ChireauBOOKBlack magic2003

    This book looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements—from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, the author describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, in a detailed history which presents t…

  • Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism

    Hasia R Diner, Yvonne Chireau et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

    Introduction PART ONE: AFRICAN AMERICAN JEWS AND ISRAELITES Black Culture and Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930: An Overview African American Jews: Dispelling Myths, Bridging the Divide Symbolic Identity Formation in an African American Religious Sect: The Black Hebrew Israelites Another Exodus: The Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona PART TWO: AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND JUDAISM The Proximate Other: …

  • Black Culture and Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an Overview

    Yvonne ChireauCHAPTERBlack Zion1999

    These Words, written by the illustrious pan-African intellectual Edward Wilmot Blyden, echo one of the most prominent themes in black religious thought from the nineteenth century onward: Ethiopianism, the prophesied redemption of Africa, a mission that was to be accomplished through the efforts of black Americans. Blyden, who in his later years became a passionate defender of Islam, initially found in the Jewish doctrine of Zionism an implicit a…

  • Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism

    Yvonne Chireau, Nathaniel DeutschBOOKBlack Zion1999

    Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection’s unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the recent turmoil in black-Jewish relations would be better understood, if not alleviated, if the religious roots of those relations were illuminated. Toward that end, the contributors look a number of p…

  • Notes on Recent Publications

    Open AccessYvonne ChireauARTICLEReligious Studies Review1997

  • Conjure and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Religious Elements in African American Magic

    Open AccessYvonne ChireauARTICLEReligion and American Culture A…1997Cited by: 1References: 29

    Shortly before the turn of the nineteenth Century, an amateur collector of Negro Spirituals and folklore recounted a conversation that she had had with an unidentified African American clergyman. According to the collector, the clergyman, "one of the most scholarly and noted ministers of the colored race," admitted that, even as a professed Christian, he found himself "under the influences ofvoodooism" and other African occult practices. He expla…

  • The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination

    Yvonne Chireau, Dolan HubbardARTICLEAfrican American Review1996Cited by: 1

  • Notes on Recent Publications

    Open AccessYvonne ChireauARTICLEReligious Studies Review1995