Indigenous Reads at Diverse Reads Bookstore: Authentic Voices & Stories
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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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African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Once relegated to the realm of "primitive" and stigmatized as "pagan," today there is a new acknowledgment of the importance of African tradition...
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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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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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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She exam...
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The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Kebra Nagast is a pivotal text in the Rastafarian tradition. Written in Ethiopia during the 14th century, this sacred tale tells the story of...
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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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Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the ...
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A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government offic...
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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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Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Spanish colonization of Latin America in the sixteenth century continues to provoke scholarly debate. Spanish missionaries employed various strate...
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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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The Fifteenth Month: Aztec History in the Rituals of Panquetzaliztli
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated...
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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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The Urgency of Indigenous Values
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /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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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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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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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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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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Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The slaughter of a wagon train of some 120 people in southern Utah on September 11, 1857, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. In...
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