Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions
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Matory, JL
2008
Whereas most African Americans and most university scholars regard enslavement as a demeaning condition, many African or African-inspired religions represent slaves as powerful and social hierarchy as a normal condition of life. Indeed, Christianity and Islam valorize slavery and the slave is ways that we seldom highlight or recognize as shaping publicly accepted conduct even in recent times.
Duke Scholars
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9789004164727
Publication Date
2008
Volume
33
Publisher
BRILL
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Matory, J. L. (2008). Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions. In S. Palmie (Ed.), Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions (Vol. 33). BOSTON: BRILL.
Matory, J Lorand. “Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions.” In Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions, edited by Stephan Palmie, Vol. 33. BOSTON: BRILL, 2008.
Matory JL. Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions. In: Palmie S, editor. Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions. BOSTON: BRILL; 2008.
Matory, J. Lorand. “Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions.” Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions, edited by Stephan Palmie, vol. 33, BRILL, 2008.
Matory JL. Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions. In: Palmie S, editor. Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions. BOSTON: BRILL; 2008.
ISBN
9789004164727
Publication Date
2008
Volume
33
Publisher
BRILL