Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
Murphy ( Santeria: African Spirits in America , Beacon, 1988) casts his net wider in this work, examining and experiencing the commonalities of African traditions found in five cases of black religious rituals in the Western hemisphere. The reader is exposed to santeria in Haiti and Cuba, a Revival Zion church in Jamaica, candomble in Brazil, and African American church services in Washington, D.C. Running through all of them, he feels, is an African "spirituality of incarnation" through which each of them, despite their differences, celebrates a spiritual freedom from an oppressive world. Recommended for black studies and religion collections.- Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.