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Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Figures vii
  4. Introduction. Ethnographic Perspectives on the Atlantic 1
  5. Chapter 1. Silent Histories: Deadly Chinos and the Memorialization of a Chinese Imaginary through Afro-Cuban Religions 17
  6. Chapter 2. Of Revelation and Re-creation: Christian Miracles and African Traditions in the Atlantic 33
  7. Chapter 3. Peruvian Israelites: Territorial Narratives and Religious Connections across the Atlantic 48
  8. Chapter 4. Defending What Is Ours: Asserting Land Rights through ‘Popular’ Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo 65
  9. Chapter 5. Emergent Atlantics: Black Evangelicals’ Quest for a New Moral Geography in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 92
  10. Chapter 6. Avoiding Stigmas and Building Bridges: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal 111
  11. Chapter 7. Our Lady of Fátima in Brazil and Iemanjá in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic 129
  12. Chapter 8. Eight Movements and a Coda on the Baroque Atlantic 152
  13. Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration 172
  14. Chapter 10. Imaging the African Diaspora: Cultural Heritage, Religion and Belonging in the Netherlands 196
  15. Chapter 11. Places of No History in Angola 215
  16. Chapter 12. Slavery Histories from the Hinterland: Making Indigenous Heritage Landscapes in Western Burkina Faso 233
  17. Chapter 13. A Prophetic Enclave: Religious Heritage and Environmental History in Northern Angola 249
  18. Conclusion. From an Atlantic Point of View: Some Final Thoughts 264
  19. Index 269
Atlantic Perspectives
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