Review: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, by Tracey E. Hucks; Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, by Dianne M. Stewart

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, by Tracey E. Hucks; Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, by Dianne M. Stewart Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination. By Tracey E. Hucks. Duke University Press, 2022. 280 pages. $26.95 softcover; ebook availableObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination. By Dianne M. Stewart. Duke University Press, 2022. 368 pages. $28.95 softcover; ebook available. Alexander Rocklin Alexander Rocklin Otterbein University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 120–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.120 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alexander Rocklin; Review: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, by Tracey E. Hucks; Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination, by Dianne M. Stewart. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 120–123. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.120 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search In many ways these two volumes are an enactment of the vision that Tracey Hucks and Dianne Stewart laid out ten years ago in the inaugural issue of Journal of African Religions in their article “Africana Religious Studies: Toward a Transdisciplinary Agenda in an Emerging Field.” Taking a phenomenological approach following Charles Long, as well as drawing on the methodologies of history and Africana theology, these dual studies of Orisha and obeah in Trinidad bring to life the internal diversity, complexity, and historical transformation of African diaspora cultures on the island. The first volume is, and is not, about Obeah. Tracey Hucks began her and Stewart’s research in Trinidad trying to find evidence of Obeah, a mostly unspecified set of African diaspora ritual and healing repertoires now largely lost, denied, or forgotten. Instead, what she found evidence for was what the two authors call obeah (in the lower case), a... You do not currently have access to this content.