Dorcas Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3826178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorcas Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorcas |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy and Religion Department, University of North Carolina (UNC) Wilmington, NC USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1169-3706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Diaspora Encounters as Signs: Immigrants’ Pentecostal Discourse in Australia
Sub-Saharan African migrants from Ghana extend and adapt to their new home in Australia, their local religious discourses created to make meaning of their journey. The discourses undergo a metamorphic process; they are used as discursive tools for negotiating migrants’ conditions and serve as the socio-cultural and psychological bridging for the transition from arrival to settling in the new home, thus interlacing the liminal stages across bounda…
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Parallel Altars of Justice: Reimagining Kanzo and Ezili Fét in South Florida
This article examines ways Haitian Americans navigate discourses and systems of justice dispensation in addressing experiences of injustice and violence. Haitians in Miami who practice Vodou navigate two parallel systems as far as the discourse and dispensation of justice are concerned. One world is informed by Vodou discourses and practices and the other by the culture of the American legal and criminal justice system. The research considers the…
You Can Be a Citizen of Mars: Token of Passports’ Rituals, Overseas Travels, and Ghana’s Neo-Pentecostal Spaces
This paper examines how a local Ghanaian Pentecostal church mediates global mobility and structural immigration barriers for alienated persons through ritual performance. Imperial alienating immigration processes for 'undesired' persons on the move to the Global North engender a religious ritual performance designed to confront the alienating structures, negotiate imposed dominant labels, and reconstruct belonging. In the ritual process, passport…
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Diaspora Encounters as Signs: Immigrants’ Pentecostal Discourse in Australia
Sub-Saharan African migrants from Ghana extend and adapt to their new home in Australia, their local religious discourses created to make meaning of their journey. The discourses undergo a metamorphic process; they are used as discursive tools for negotiating migrants’ conditions and serve as the socio-cultural and psychological bridging for the transition from arrival to settling in the new home, thus interlacing the liminal stages across bounda…
Passport
Parallel Altars of Justice: Reimagining Kanzo and Ezili Fét in South Florida
This article examines ways Haitian Americans navigate discourses and systems of justice dispensation in addressing experiences of injustice and violence. Haitians in Miami who practice Vodou navigate two parallel systems as far as the discourse and dispensation of justice are concerned. One world is informed by Vodou discourses and practices and the other by the culture of the American legal and criminal justice system. The research considers the…
You Can Be a Citizen of Mars: Token of Passports’ Rituals, Overseas Travels, and Ghana’s Neo-Pentecostal Spaces
This paper examines how a local Ghanaian Pentecostal church mediates global mobility and structural immigration barriers for alienated persons through ritual performance. Imperial alienating immigration processes for 'undesired' persons on the move to the Global North engender a religious ritual performance designed to confront the alienating structures, negotiate imposed dominant labels, and reconstruct belonging. In the ritual process, passport…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Negotiation (2 works) · Phenomenon (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (1 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 works)