123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): African Religions in the Diaspora

African Religions in the Diaspora

AHA Session 189

Monday, January 5, 2009: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Murray Hill Suite B (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

The Vodun Religious Practices in the Slave Coast and in Bahian Candomblé
Luis Nicolau Parés, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Vodou in Nineteenth-Century Haiti: Important Opportunities for Assemblage
Thorald M. Burnham, Colgate University

Constructing a Diaspora: The Gnawa Black West Africans in Morocco
Chouki El Hamel, Arizona State University at Tempe

Bori in Tunisia: Transformation from a Secret-Possession Cult to Ethno-Religious Culture in the National, Transnational, and Global Space
Ismael Musa Montana, Northern Illinois University

Comment:

Martin Klein, University of Toronto

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