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Focusing on the relationship between the Conjure tradition and Christianity, Chireau successfully demonstrates how these seemingly contradictory traditions have worked together. This well-researched, well-written, and richly detailed study offers an insightful and complex analysis of a misunderstood religious tradition.
- Yvonne Chireau
Black Magic highlights the changing status of Conjure: first as magical tool of slave resistance and healing technique for enslaved bodies; next as bane of white evangelical missionaries and Reconstruction-era black churches; then as object of chagrin for self-conscious, upwardly mobile blacks when black authors and bluesmen seized upon Conjure ...
- Jalane Schmidt
Oct 1, 1990 · Beginning in the 1790s, crystallized in the 1880s, flowering in the 1920s, and seemingly resurgent in the 1980s, images of `black religion' as violent and licentious `black magic' have dominated all popular discourse on African-derived religions .
- Joseph M Murphy
- 1990
explores the little-studied Black Carib religion of the Garifuna and explains how it challenges some preexisting conceptions of the African Diaspora. He argues not
This paper addresses the role of magical practices within African-American society and the importance of rec. ognizing the role of gender ideologies within magical and. religious practice, and proposes a diachronic model for. understanding the changing relationship between magic and religion.
The study examines a range of African American spiritual traditions such as Conjure, Hoodoo, and root working, and contrasts them with the official doctrines of institutionalized religion: Protestant Christianity.
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Aug 19, 2021 · in practice, magic differs from religion in desired outcome in that as religion seeks to satisfy moral and metaphysical ends, magic is a functional art which often seeks to accomplish tangible ...
