Apples for Audubon and Eggplant for Oya

Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Religious Practice in Sugar Hill, New York City’s Parks and Cemetery

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12901462
AutoresSaille Caia Murray (Film Independent, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas487-516
Data de publicação2022-02-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915
EditoraEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jsrnc.21397
OpenAlexW4224283455
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas9

Harlem’s historic Sugar Hill neighborhood possesses several public parks and cemeteries used by African and Afro-Caribbean Diaspora communities for religious activities. In my research, I have identified and mapped sites of religious activities and conducted interviews with community members, revealing how practitioners of Santería, Vodou, and Yoruba traditions have adapted to their urban home via the use of public space. The religious traditions explored here require interaction with nature and the physical land. Therefore, I argue that public space serves as critical infrastructure for facilitating the practice of these religious traditions. I build on the views of Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, and Heather McMillen that practitioners who engage in this use of public space derive a psycho-social-spiritual benefit from those spaces, while simultaneously contributing to the diversity and democracy of these public spaces as Frederick Law Olmsted and others have theorized

Democracy · Diaspora · Diversity (politics · Political science · Politics · Public space · Sociology · Yoruba · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces