Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candombl?, Santer?a, and Vodou

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucum /Santer a, and Brazilian Candombl to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Strongman, Roberto
Published: 05/10/2019
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9781478003106
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d