Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Paradox of Africana Religions’ Legal Status
The Jamaican government reconsidering the Obeah Act in the summer of 2019 highlighted the legacy of prejudice and criminalization of Africana religious systems and practices left by colonization across ethno-linguistic borders and the broader Black Atlantic. It also highlighted how some traditions s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2022
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-128 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Atlantic
/ Afro-American syncretism
/ Religion
/ Law
/ Colonialism
/ Resistance
/ History 1760-2019
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations AZ New religious movements KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBR Latin America TJ Modern history TK Recent history XA Law ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Black Atlantic
B Law B Modernity B Colonialism B Obeah |
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