Women and Religion in the African Diaspora - Knowlegde, Power and Performance

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix PART I DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE 1 a Senzala: Slavery, Women, and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candombl TD> 3(16) RACHEL ELIZABETH HARDING 2 "I Smoothed the Way, I Opened Doors": Women in the Yoruba-Orisha Tradition of Trinidad 19(18) TRACEY E. HUCKS 3 Joining the African Diaspora: Migration and Diasporic Religious Culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York 37(22) PAUL CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON 4 Women of the African Diaspora Within: The Masowe Apostles, an African Initiated Church 59(42) ISABEL MUKONYORA 5 "Power in the Blood": Menstrual Taboos and Women's Power in an African Instituted Church DEIDRE HELEN CRUMBLEY PART II POWER, AUTHORITY, AND SUBVERSION 6 "The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit": African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender 101(27) WALLACE BEST 7 "Make Us a Power": African American Methodists Debate the "Woman Question," 1870 1900 128(27) MARTHA S. JONES 8 "Only a Woman Would Do": Bible Reading and African American Women's Organizing Work 155(24) ANTHEA D. BUTLER 9 Exploring the Religious Connection: Black Women Community Workers, Religious Agency, and the Force of Faith 179 CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES PART III PERFORMING RELIGION 10 The Arts of Loving 199(23) LISA GAIL COLLINS 11 "Truths that Liberate the Soul": Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance 222(23) JUDITH WEISENFELD 12 Shopping with Sister Zubayda: African American Sunni Muslim Rituals of Consumption and Belonging 245(21) CAROLYN ROUSE 13 "But, It's Bible": African American Women and Television Preachers 266(27) MARLA FREDERICK-MCGLATHERY Notes 293(64) About the Contributors 357(4) Index 361