Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina

This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Contributors come from a wide range of fields--religious studies, art history, literature, and anthropology--and focus on the central concern of how different religious communities explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality through religious practice and discourse. The volume adds the voices of religious practitioners and artists to those of scholars to engage in conversations about how Latino/a and African diaspora religions respond creatively to a history of colonization.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Otero, Solimar
Published: 11/01/2013
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438447995
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d