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From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of the African American experience. What began as a mixture of African, European, and Native American influences within slave communities finds expression today in a multimillion dollar business. In Conjure in African American Society, Jeffrey E. Anderson unfolds a fascinating story as he traces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure.


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  • Author : Jeffrey E. Anderson
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Total Pages : 260 pages
  • ISBN : 9780807130926
  • PDF File Size : 23,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Conjure in African American Society

Conjure in African American Society
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • File Size : 24,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 May 2024
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From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of

Black Magic

Black Magic
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 28,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 20 November 2006
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"Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African American religious culture. Expanding beyond the usual focus of scholarship on Christianity, she describes and analyzes the world

African American Religion

African American Religion
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • File Size : 50,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 May 2024
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"African American Religion offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as

Conjure in African-American Society

Conjure in African-American Society
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 31,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 May 2019
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Abstract: This recipient of the Melvin E. Bradford Prize from the St. George Tucker Society examines African American magical practices from colonial times to the rise of modern spiritual supply

Conjuring Culture

Conjuring Culture
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 31,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 09 November 1995
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This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical

The Conjure-man Dies : a Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem

The Conjure-man Dies : a Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 44,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 May 1992
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An African king with a degree from Harvard who set himself up as a "conjure-man", a fortune teller, is murdered in 1930s Harlem. This is the first known mystery novel

Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure

Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • File Size : 40,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 October 2008
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Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imagination. These magical beliefs and practices have figured in literary

Mojo Workin'

Mojo Workin'
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • File Size : 45,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 December 2012
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In this book, Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged

Making Gullah

Making Gullah
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • File Size : 41,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 March 2017
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During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions

Conjure Women

Conjure Women
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • File Size : 22,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 23 February 2021
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A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF