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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Tony Kail traces Memphis's colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke...
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Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian Vodo...
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Theology Brewed in an African Pot
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe's acclaimed novel, Things Fall Apart, Orobator introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: ...
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Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in V...
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Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the moveme...
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Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the...
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Guardians of Idolatry: Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón's Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In 1629, Catholic priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarc n produced the Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to Th...
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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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Knowing the Orisha Gods & Goddesses
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This beautifully illustrated exploration of Afro-Brazilian spirituality introduces you to the gods of the African diaspora known as the Orishas. Pr...
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The Urgency of Indigenous Values
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Philip Arnold explores the vital need to understand Indigenous values in order to overcome the legacy of colonialism, represent Indigenous convicti...
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A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
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The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an inti...
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Peyote vs. The State: Religious Freedom on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The story of the constitutional showdown over Native Americans’ religious use of peyote With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-y...
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A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
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African Immigrant Religions in America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the...
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Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The concept of mestizaje-a reference to the distinctive biological and cultural intermixture that occurred in the. "New World"-has become a found...
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Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A thorough updating of the book that revolutionized the way the we understand the origins of Christianity and how the translation of the Bible in...
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Santeria: the Religion: Faith, Rites, Magic
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Brought to Cuba as slaves, the Yoruba people of West Africa preserved their religion's heritage by disguising their gods as Catholic saints and w...
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African Religions
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditio...
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Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An examination of the beliefs and history of the secretive Yezidi sect - Explains how the Yezidis worship Melek Ta'us, the Peacock Angel, an enigma...
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Coming Down from Above: Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religionsvolume 258
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This fi...
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The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Paul B. Steinmetz served as a Catholic priest among the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota from 1961 to 1981. During that time. at the funeral of Rex ...
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The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "go...
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