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Author(s): Stephen Hodkinson, Dick Geary
ISBN(s): 9781443837361, 1443837369
Edition: Unabridged edition
File Details: PDF, 2.07 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1443837369

ISBN 13: 9781443837361 

Author: Stephen Hodkinson, Dick Geary 

Slaves have never been mere passive victims of slavery. Typically, they have responded with ingenuity to their violent separation from their native societies, using a variety of strategies to create new social networks and cultures. Religion has been a major arena for such slave cultural strategies. Through participation in religious and ritual activities, slaves have generated important elements of identity, shared humanity, and even resistance, within their lives. This volume presents papers from a conference of the University of Nottingham’s Institute for the Study of Slavery – the only UK centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies within the diverse religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil. After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular new light on the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction. Slaves and religions: historiographies, ancient and modern

  2. In the eyes of the beholders or in the minds of the believers? Historicizing “religion” and enslavement

  3. The ritual activity of Roman slaves

  4. Slaves and role reversal in Ancient Greek cults

  5. Slaves included? Sexual regulations and slave participation in two ancient religious groups

  6. The journey home: a freed Mulatto priest, a Cipriano Pires Sardinha, and his religious mission to Dahomey

  7. Manumission, social rebirth, and healing Gods in Ancient Greece

  8. The Apollo of slaves and freedmen

  9. Infant slave baptisms, legitimacy, parental origins, godparenthood and naming practices in the Parish of São José Do Rio Das Mortes Brazil (1750–1850)

  10. “What will happen to me if I leave?” Ancient Greek oracles, slaves and slave owners

  11. Magic, religion, and the Roman slave: resistance, control and community

  12. “The rights of man” or “Afro-American call to holy war”: religion, ideology and slave revolt in Brazil, 1750–1880

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