Experiments with power : Obeah and the remaking of religion in Trinidad / J. Brent Crosson.
Crosson, J. Brent (Jonathan Brent), author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2020
BL2532.O23 C76 2020
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Title Experiments with power : Obeah and the remaking of religion in Trinidad / J. Brent Crosson.
Author Crosson, J. Brent (Jonathan Brent), author.
ISBN 9780226705514 (electronic book)
022670551X (electronic book)
9780226700649
022670064X
9780226705484
022670548X
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number BL2532.O23 C76 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 299.6/7
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Added Corporate Author ProQuest (Firm)
Series Class 200, new studies in religion.
Available in Other Form Experiments with power.
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Introduction
Part One: The depths
Interlude 1: Number Twenty-One Junction
What Obeah does do : Religion, violence, and law
Interlude 2: In the valley of dry bones
Experiments with justice : on turning in the grave
Interlude 3: To balance the load
Electrical ethics : on turning the other cheek
Part Two: The nations
Interlude 4: Where the Ganges meets the Nile, I
Blood lines : race, sacrifice, and the making of religion
Interlude 5: Where the Ganges meets the Nile, II
A tongue between nations : spiritual work, secularism, and the art of crossover
Part Three: The heights
Interlude 6: Arlena's haunting
High science
Epilogue: the ends of tolerance.

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