TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conner,Randy P.
AU  - Sparks,David Hatfield
TI  - Queering creole spiritual traditions: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender participation in African-inspired traditions in the Americas 
T2  - Haworth gay & lesbian studies
SN  - 9781317712817 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL65.H64 C67 2004eb
U1  - 299/.6/08664 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Nwe York
PB  - Harrington Park Press
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Afro-Caribbean cults
KW  - Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
KW  - swd
KW  - Randgruppe
KW  - Sexualität
KW  - fast
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - Amerika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-359) and index; Creole spiritual traditions : a bird's-eye view -- Sexual and gender complexity in Yorùbáland? -- Other possible African influences -- Possible indigenous influences of the Western Hemisphere -- Lwa of Vodou -- Orishás of Yorùbá-diasporic spiritual traditions -- Spirits of Brazil -- Divine horses -- Masisi and Madivin -- Bigotry in the Vodou community -- A bridge of the spirits -- Adés, ekedes, and others -- Practitioners of Lucumí/Santería and related religions -- Drag queens, transgender persons, transsexuals -- Prohibitions and discrimination within Yorùbá-diasporic and allied communities -- Divination and interpretation -- Challenges and transformations -- Relationships and ceremonies of union -- HIV/AIDS, Afro ashé, and odô yá -- Notions of self in African-inspired spiritual traditions -- Practioners of Vodou -- Practitioners of Lucumí/Santería/Regla de Ocha, and other Cuban- and Puerto Rican-linked traditions -- Practitioners of Candomblé and other Brazilian traditions -- Practitioners of Orishá reverence, the Ifá tradition, and bridge-builders -- Literature -- Music -- Visual arts
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UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003011305.html
ER  -