BookAlexis Wells-Oghoghomeh.
Summary: "In The souls of womenfolk, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh argues that woman-gendered cosmologies and experiences from the Upper Guinea Coast played a distinct role in shaping the religious consciousness and practices of enslaved communities in the Lower South, and that this process took place concurrently as enslaved peoples in the U.S. South interpreted their new contexts through the cosmological frameworks of their foreparents, while acquiring, innovating, and revising contemporaneous practices"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: of the faith of the mothers
Georgia genesis: the birth of the enslaved female soul
Womb remembrances: the moral dimensions of enslaved motherhood
Sex, body, and soul: sexual ethics and social values among the enslaved
The birth and death of souls: enslaved women and ritual
Spirit bodies and feminine souls: women, power, and the sacred imagination
When souls gather: women and gendered performance in religious spaces
Conclusion: gendering the "religion of the slave."
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