Spiritual Citizenship

Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19945882
AutoresN Fadeke Castor (0009-0008-7733-6035, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Páginas256
Data de publicação2017-09-08
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSpiritual Citizenship (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822372585
OpenAlexW4233117097
Open LibraryOL34065463M
ISBN9780822372585
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDLro7DwAAQBAJ
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31

In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for African diasporic religions to enter mainstream Trinidadian society. She establishes how the postcolonial performance of Ifá/Orisha practices in Trinidad fosters a sense of belonging that invigorates its practitioners to work toward freedom, equality, and social justice. Demonstrating how spirituality is inextricable from the political project of black liberation, Castor illustrates the ways in which Ifá/Orisha beliefs and practices offer Trinidadians the means to strengthen belonging throughout the diaspora, access past generations, heal historical wounds, and envision a decolonial future

Citizenship · Diaspora · Mainstream · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spirituality · Yoruba · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · African influences · Black power · Blacks · Cults · Ifa (Religion) · Orisha religion · Religion · Social conditions · Trinidad and tobago