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Author : Rubens Saraceni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Orixá Exu written by Rubens Saraceni and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lilith Dorsey
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1633411265
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens written by Lilith Dorsey and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo. Throughout Africa and beyond in the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the divine feminine was revered in the forms of goddesses like the ancient Nana Buluku, water spirits like Yemaya, Oshun, and Mami Wata, and the warrior Oya. The power of these goddesses and spirit beings has taken root in the West. New Orleans, for example, is the home of Marie Laveau, who used her magical powers to become the “Voodoo Queen” of New Orleans. Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens shows you how to celebrate and cultivate the traits of these goddesses, drawing upon their strengths to empower your own life. In addition to offering a guided tour of the key goddesses of the African religious traditions, the book offers magical spells, rituals, potions, astrological correspondences, sacred offerings, and much more to help guide you on your own transformational journey.
Author : Trevor Greenfield
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782794751
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Naming the Goddess written by Trevor Greenfield and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the Goddess is written by over eighty adherents and scholars of Goddess and Goddess Spirituality, and includes contributions from Selena Fox, Kathy Jones, Caroline Wise and Rachel Patterson. Part 1 is a series of critical essays focusing upon contemporary Goddess issues. Part 2 is a spiritual gazetteer featuring over seventy Goddesses.
Author : Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030150747
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Queer in the Tropics written by Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to reflect on how to translate “queer” in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale as an effort to understand dissident bodies and their inventions. But how can we utilize such a rich body of literature and proposals without merely applying in the Global South what has been formulated in the Global North? Through meetings between dissident bodies in the Global South, the book suggests that the theoretical-poetic inventions formulated in this part of the world cannot be forgotten and proposes a discussion on how to approach queer theory from a decolonial point of view. There is still only a scant body of literature that systematizes and approaches these questions from a Latin American point of view; or, to use the term that gives this book its name, the “tropics.” The book points out the necessity of staying aware of the connections between western modernity and colonial practices. The book therefore invites us to pass through borders, to question limits, and to allow ourselves to be affected by Others, a fundamental exercise in the context of social inequality as drastic as that in which the majority of the population live in Latin America and in the Global South in general. Theories, like bodies, travel; in being translated, they transform themselves. The movements and the bending of bodies and theories are disturbing and subversive. Queer in the Tropics arises from these translations, from this bending, and from these subversions.
Author : Stefania Capone Laffitte
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392046
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Searching for Africa in Brazil written by Stefania Capone Laffitte and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian religious orthodoxy identified with the Nagô (Yoruba) cult in the northeastern state of Bahia. In contrast to other researchers, Capone foregrounds the agency of Candomblé leaders. She demonstrates that they successfully imposed their vision of Candomblé on anthropologists, reshaping in their own interest narratives of Afro-Brazilian religious practice. The anthropological narratives were then taken as official accounts of religious orthodoxy by many practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions in Brazil. Capone draws on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro as she demonstrates that there is no pure or orthodox Afro-Brazilian religion. Challenging the usual interpretations of Afro-Brazilian religions as fixed entities, completely independent of one another, Capone reveals these practices as parts of a unique religious continuum. She does so through an analysis of ritual variations as well as discursive practices. To illuminate the continuum of Afro-Brazilian religious practice and the tensions between exegetic discourses and ritual practices, Capone focuses on the figure of Exu, the sacred African trickster who allows communication between gods and men. Following Exu and his avatars, she discloses the centrality of notions of prestige and power—mystical and religious—in Afro-Brazilian religions. To explain how religious identity is constantly negotiated among social actors, Capone emphasizes the agency of practitioners and their political agendas in the “return to roots,” or re-Africanization, movement, an attempt to recover the original purity of a mythical and legitimizing Africa.
Author : Judika Illes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062047264
Total Pages : 1528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells written by Judika Illes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Encyclopedia Of 5,000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts, independent scholar, educator and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology Judika Iles enables the reader to enter the world of folklore, myth and magic with binding spells and banishing spells, spells for love, luck, wealth, and power, as well as spells for spiritual protection, physical healing, and enhanced fertility drawn from Earth's every corner and spanning 5,000 years of magical history.
Author : James William Wafer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213416
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Taste of Blood written by James William Wafer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taste of Blood brilliantly explores both Condomble and the representations of ethnographic research.--Folklore Forum
Author : Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137535008
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America written by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.
Author : Bàbá Osvaldo Omotobàtálá
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304614689
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Kimbanda - Myths and Secrets written by Bàbá Osvaldo Omotobàtálá and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you thought this author had written all over kimbanda in his first book, in this amazes us with much more information on this type of worship Exu and Entities of Afro-Brazilian origin, where we about ideas and knowledge also provide kimbanda Entities themselves expressed in various mediums, using historical data sources and bibliography. The concept of God in the kimbanda and the concept of Entity - The Dress and the why of it - The "Cavalo" of kimbanda - Types kimbanda mediums - Kingdom and People (Entities) of Lyre - The Realm of Darkness (Kiumbanda) - the Organization of Exu (demystifying demons) - the Pontos Sung (its function and purpose) - "Povo dos Infernos", "Povo dos Cabarets", "Povo dos Malandros", "Povo Cigano", "Povo do Oriente", with deep data about some Exu and Pombagira that integrate and their functions - the Trident (meaning) - the Pade - the Tabatinga - Cowries of Exu.
Author : Kelly E. Hayes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949439
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Holy Harlots written by Kelly E. Hayes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazaré da Silva. Combining Nazaré’s spiritual biography with analysis of the gender politics and violence that shapes life on the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Hayes highlights Pomba Gira’s role in the rivalries, relationships, and struggles of everyday life in urban Brazil. The accompanying film Slaves of the Saints may be viewed online at ucpress.edu/go/holyharlots.
Author : Jim Wafer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203860
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Taste of Blood written by Jim Wafer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals, folklore, and engaging personalities of the villagers of Jacari, among whom trances, sorcery, and spirit possession demonstrate the coexistence of different kinds of reality. This ethnography is intriguing not only because of the originality of its approach to the more enigmatic aspects of another culture but also because it uses insights gained from participation in that culture to reflect on the paradoxes inherent in the writer's own culture, and in the human condition in general.
Author : Lindsay Hale
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826347347
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Hearing the Mermaid's Song written by Lindsay Hale and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. Its practitioners worship African gods, often calling them by the names of Catholic saints; simultaneously embrace the concepts of karma, reincarnation, and Christian charity; and believe in the capacities of both modern science and ancient magic. A relatively new religion dating to the beginning of the twentieth century, Umbanda has its origins in Rio de Janeiro and its surrounding urban areas where Afro-Brazilians, many ex-slaves or the descendants of slaves, practiced versions of the religion handed down to them by their ancestors. Umbanda's popularity has grown tremendously over the past century, attracting not only those who seek the assistance of spirits in solving problems in their lives, but those in pursuit of a path to a rich spiritual life and a fellowship of faith and service. Over the course of nearly a decade, Lindsay Hale spent countless hours attending rituals and festivals and interviewing participants of Umbanda, immersing himself in this fascinating religious world. In describing its many aspects and exploring its unique place within the lives of a wide variety of practitioners, Hale places Umbanda spiritual beliefs and practices within the broader context of Brazilian history and culture.
Author : Lilith Dorsey
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806527147
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean Paganism written by Lilith Dorsey and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few religions are as misunderstood as Afro-Caribbean traditions like Voodoo, Yoruba, Candomble, Shango, Santeria, and Obeah. Even the most wide-ranging books about Paganism rarely include a discussion of the African earth religions.
Author : Lillian Ashcraft-Eason
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Women and New and Africana Religions written by Lillian Ashcraft-Eason and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the lives of women around the world from the perspective of the New and Africana faiths they practice. This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum. In Women and New and Africana Religions, readers hear from women from a number of religious/spiritual persuasions around the world, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North America. These voices form the core of remarkable explorations of family and environment, social and spiritual empowerment, sexuality and power, and ways in which worldview informs roles in religion and society. Each essay includes scene-setting historical and social background information and fascinating insights from renowned scholars sharing their own research and firsthand experiences with their subjects.
Author : Elisa Larkin Nascimento
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592133525
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Sorcery of Color written by Elisa Larkin Nascimento and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil.
Author : David Barreto
Publisher : David Barreto
ISBN 13 : 1916211119
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Book of Umbanda written by David Barreto and published by David Barreto. This book was released on 2024-09-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume offers a comprehensive exploration of Umbanda, meticulously crafted for both academic researchers and religious practitioners. As the most detailed analysis of Umbanda ever written in English, it covers the religion’s history, deities, hierarchies of entities, essential tools, rituals, and temple practices. Each chapter methodically unpacks a critical aspect of Umbanda: from ancient mythology and its more recent syncretic roots to its modern-day practices and the role of Brazil’s socio-political background in shaping it. Altar setups, chants, the role and composition of offerings, and the occult details of mediumistic channelling are explored with the precision and insight of a seasoned practitioner. Tailored specifically for English-speaking readers, this work ensures precise translations of key terms and names, bridging cultural gaps while maintaining the integrity of Umbanda’s spiritual and ritualistic essence. The translations are crafted to facilitate a deep understanding of Umbanda, ensuring the content is accessible and resonates without sounding categorically foreign or rather exotic. Topics Covered Include ● The historical, sociological, and political contexts that shaped Umbanda ● The religion's theological evolution and doctrinal development ● Orishas, spiritual hierarchies, and mythological narratives ● Temple layout, ritual implements, and the significance of sacred offerings ● The traditions of spiritual channelling and their hidden rites ● Essential images ● A comprehensive glossary of key terms and concepts The Book of Umbanda is an essential reference for students, educators, scholars, and practitioners of the religion from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. It also holds significant value for professionals and academics across various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, theology, and history.
Author : Judika Illes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008696020
Total Pages : 1768 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts written by Judika Illes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 1768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated Anniversary Edition features an inspiring new preface from Judika to celebrate 20 years of this magical reference book.
