Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403974802, 9781403974808, 9780230601048

Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403974802, 9781403974808, 9780230601048

The Nigerian Diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a

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Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403967725, 9781403967725, 9781403973429

Islam Obscured analyzes four seminal anthropology texts on Muslims that have been read widely outside the discipline. Tw

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The Road to Clarity: Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403970750, 9781403970756, 9781403977007

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Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community 1317732162, 9781317732167

Over the last 35 years, practice of Santeria and the Yoruba religion in the United States has grown as the result of Afr

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After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) 0312239459, 9780312239459

In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Na

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At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English (African Articulations, 7) (Yoruba Edition) 1847012221, 9781847012227

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The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature 9781498563840, 9781498563833

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of the complex transitional migratory identities evident

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora 9780812294781

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the A

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Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the 21st Century (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403979839, 9781403979834

Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion!The roots of contemporary Islamic m

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Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance 9780801883705, 9780801883699

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