Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad Social Activism & Volunteering and trauma and violence

and trauma and violence

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1560252689

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1797205455

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He received trainings across the entire Yorubaland but noteworthy among his teachers are Late Babalawo Babalola Ifatoogun

Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad Social Activism & Volunteering and trauma and violenceIn Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how If Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad, Castor outlines how the political activism and social upheaval of the 1970s set the stage for African diasporic religions to enter mainstream Trinidadian