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  • Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire

    What Kids Need to Talk About

    by Irwin Epstein, Ken Peake, Daniel Medeiros ...
    Learn how to better clinically serve risky adolescentsfrom the clients themselves!Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About explores the research on adolescent behavior culled from the answers to a clinician-designed intake questionnaire given to adolescent clients asking how they view their own risks, what they worry about, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Epistemic Ambivalence

    Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

    by Daniel Medeiros de Freitas, Carolina Maria Soares Lima, Krzysztof Nawratek, Bernardo Miranda Pataro ...
    This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration.It adopts a dual perspective, examining the broader political, economic, and social dimensions of these religious communities' urbanisation and spatial distribution and their ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Latina/o Theologies

    Edited by Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Dr. Edwin David Aponte ...
    Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a communities that articulate a distinctive and relevant Hispanic viewpoint. This collection of ... Read more

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  • Streetwalking

    LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

    by Ana-Maurine Lara ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders ... Read more

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  • In Search of Legitimacy

    How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

    by Lauren Miller Griffith ...
    Series Book 7 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds

    Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community

    by C. James MacKenzie ...
    Series series IMS Culture and Society
    Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States.Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among ... Read more

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  • Electric Santería

    Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

    by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Spirit Song

    Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries

    by Marc Gidal ...
    In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies, Gidal advances a theory of musical boundary-work: the ways music reinforces, bridges, or blurs ... Read more

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  • The Cooking of History

    How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the ... Read more

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  • Blessed Anastacia

    Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

    by John Burdick ...
    The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, John Burdick challenges this view by revealing the many-layered reality of popular black consciousness and identity in an arena that is usually overlooked: that of popular Christianity.Blessed Anastacia describes how popular Christianity confronts ... Read more

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  • Singing for the Dead

    The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico

    by Paja Faudree ...
    Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component in the polarized debates about indigenous orality and literacy, and she considers how the coupling of literacy and song ... Read more

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  • Fire Under My Feet

    History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

    Edited by Ofosuwa M. Abiola ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora.In the book, written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD