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Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans

Name: Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226838847
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Contributors:

Ahmad Greene-Hayes

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Religion, History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

History, United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

20th Century, American

Series:

Class 200: New Studies in Religion

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Release Date:

2025-05-06

ISBN 13:

9780226838847

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inches

Pages:

288

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A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.

When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space.

Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms--ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more--to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, Underworld Work celebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.

About the Author
Ahmad Greene-Hayes is assistant professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University.

Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans

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