Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba write by Jualynne E. Dodson. This book was released on 2008. Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.
Geographies of Cubanidad
Geographies of Cubanidad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Cubanidad write by Rebecca M. Bodenheimer. This book was released on 2015-07-10. Geographies of Cubanidad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting a gap between the claim of racial harmony and the realities of inequality faced by Afro-Cubans since independence in 1898. In this book, Rebecca M. Bodenheimer argues that it is not only the recognition of racial difference that threatens to divide the nation, but that popular regional sentiment further contests the hegemonic national discourse. Given that the music is a prominent symbol of Cubanidad, musical practices play an important role in constructing regional, local, and national identities. This book suggests that regional identity exerts a significant influence on the aesthetic choices made by Cuban musicians. Through the examination of several genres, Bodenheimer explores the various ways that race and place are entangled in contemporary Cuban music. She argues that racialized notions which circulate about different cities affect both the formation of local identity and musical performance. Thus, the musical practices discussed in the book—including rumba, timba, eastern Cuban folklore, and son—are examples of the intersections between regional identity formation, racialized notions of place, and music-making.
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas write by Michelle A. Gonzalez. This book was released on 2014. A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways in which religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberation theology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out of touch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth, where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individual relationships with the divine. By drawing on a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, this volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent. Informed by the dialogue partners explored throughout the text, this volume presents a hemispheric approach to discussing lived religious movements. While not dismissive of liberation theologies, this approach is critical of their past and offers challenges to their future as well as suggestions for preventing their untimely demise. It is clear that the liberation theologies of tomorrow cannot look like the liberation theologies of today.
Caribbean Healing Traditions
Caribbean Healing Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caribbean Healing Traditions write by Patsy Sutherland. This book was released on 2013-07-24. Caribbean Healing Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Caribbean communities become more international, clinicians and scholars must develop new paradigms for understanding treatment preferences and perceptions of illness. Despite evidence supporting the need for culturally appropriate care and the integration of traditional healing practices into conventional health and mental health care systems, it is unclear how such integration would function since little is known about the therapeutic interventions of Caribbean healing traditions. Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health fills this gap. Drawing on the knowledge of prominent clinicians, scholars, and researchers of the Caribbean and the diaspora, these healing traditions are explored in the context of health and mental health for the first time, making Caribbean Healing Traditions an invaluable resource for students, researchers, faculty, and practitioners in the fields of nursing, counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, social work, youth and community development, and medicine.
New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora
New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora write by Rita Kiki Edozie. This book was released on 2018-10-01. New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology presents a new study of the worldwide African diaspora by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary scholarship to address the connectedness of Black subject identities, experiences, issues, themes, and topics, applying them dynamically to diverse locations of the Blackworld—Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. The book underscores three dimensions of African diaspora study. First is a global approach to the African diaspora, showing how globalism underscores the distinctive role that Africa plays in contributing to world history. Second is the extension of African diaspora study in a geographical scope to more robust inclusions of not only the African continent but also to uncharted paths and discoveries of lesser-known diaspora experiences and identities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Third is the illustration of universal unwritten cultural representations of humanities in the African diasporas that show the distinctive humanities’ disciplinary representations of Black diaspora imaginaries and subjectivities. The contributing authors inductively apply these themes to focus the reader’s attention on contemporary localized issues and historical arenas of the African diaspora. They engage their findings to critically analyze the broader norms and dimensions that characterize a given set of interrelated criteria that have come to establish parameters that increasingly standardize African diaspora studies.
