{"product_id":"indigenous-and-african-diaspora-religions-in-the-americas-9781496235732","title":"Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas","description":"\u003ci\u003eIndigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these traditions as typologically and historically related. This curated selection of the traditions allows readers to compare and highlight convergences, while the description and comparison of the traditions challenges colonial erasures and expands knowledge about endangered cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The inclusion of spirit-based traditions from a broad geographical area emphasizes the typology of religion over ethnic compartmentalization. The individuals and communities studied in this collection serve spirits through rituals, song, instruments, initiation, embodiment via possession or trance, veneration of nature, and, among some Indigenous people, the consumption of ritual psychoactive entheogens. Indigenous and African diaspora practices focused on service to ancestors and spirits reflect ancient substrates of religiosity. The rationale to separate them on disciplinary, ethnic, linguistic, geographical, or historical grounds evaporates in our interconnected world. Shared cultural, historical, and structural features of American indigenous and African diaspora spirit-based traditions mutually deserve our attention since the analyses and dialogues give way to discoveries about deep commonalities and divergences among religions and philosophies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Still struggling against the effects of colonialism, enslavement, and extinction, the practitioners of these spirit-based religious traditions hold on to important but vulnerable parts of humanity's cultural heritage. These readings make possible journeys of recognition as well as discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Hebblethwaite\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in Haitian Creole, Haitian, and Francophone studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eStirring the Pot of Haitian History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eSilke Jansen\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Romance linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. She is the author of several publications on language and culture contacts in the Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487430545682,"sku":"9781496235732","price":108.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53aecc45-f632-4347-82d9-7a6fb277ff75.jpg?v=1730440641","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/indigenous-and-african-diaspora-religions-in-the-americas-9781496235732","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}