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Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions
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Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions

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Introduction: On predications of africanity / Stephan Palmie
On leaving and joining africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson
From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative / James Sidbury
Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Roman
Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz
Ecue's atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmie
Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal
Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone
Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman
African accents, speaking child spirits, and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomble / Elina Hartikainen
Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.

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