Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katharine GerbnerSeries:Religious Cultures of African and AfricaPublish date:10/14/2025Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032403ISBN-10:1478032405UPC:9781478032403Book Category:History, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Latin America, Black Studies (Global), African Diaspora ReligionsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCHWKCDQ6R
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial law. In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner traces how British authorities in Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a practice that was variously seen as a healing method, an Africana religion, a science, and a form of witchcraft. Gerbner shows...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and Africa
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032403ISBN-10:1478032405UPC:9781478032403Book Category:History, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Latin America, Black Studies (Global), African Diaspora ReligionsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCHWKCDQ6R
Katharine Gerbner is Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World.
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