Religious circulation in Transatlantic Africa

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Title:	Religious circulation in Transatlantic Africa
Editor:	Kamp, Linda van de
Year:	2016
Periodical:	African Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (ISSN 1872-5457)
Volume:	9
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	1-99
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Germany Brazil Suriname Netherlands Portugal Guinea-Bissau Senegal Spain
Subjects:	African religions Afro-Brazilians Afro-Caribbeans dance marabouts Sufism death rites religious movements
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-00901006
Abstract:	This special issue of African Diaspora analyzes Transatlantic connections with regard to African or African-derived religions. It discusses the circulation of religious ideas between Africa, Europe and the Americas, stressing the multi-directional exchange between the continents. Contributions: Introduction: religious circulation in Transatlantic Africa (Linda van de Kamp); Dancing with the 'orixás': music, body and the circulation of African 'candomblé' symbols in Germany (Joana Bahia); African power: West African mediums catering to Surinamese clients in the Netherlands (Amber Gemmeke); Circulating spirits and dead bodies: funerary transnationalism among immigrants from Guinea-Bissau in Portugal (Clara Saraiva); Transnational Baye-fallism: transformation of a Sufi heterodoxy through diasporic circulation (Ester Massó Guijarro). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract]