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03521aam a2200397 i 4500 001 DB1E0860EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200903010031 008 191113t20202020ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019052057 020 $a 022670064X 020 $a 9780226700649 020 $a 022670548X 020 $a 9780226705484 035 $a (OCoLC)1117900904 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwtr--- 050 00 $a BL2532 O23 C76 2020 100 1 $a Crosson, J. Brent $q (Jonathan Brent) $e author. 245 10 $a Experiments with power : $b Obeah and the remaking of religion in Trinidad / $c J. Brent Crosson. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 322 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Class 200, new studies in religion 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part One: The depths -- Interlude 1: Number Twenty-One Junction -- What Obeah does do : Religion, violence, and law -- Interlude 2: In the valley of dry bones -- Experiments with justice : on turning in the grave -- Interlude 3: To balance the load -- Electrical ethics : on turning the other cheek -- Part Two: The nations -- Interlude 4: Where the Ganges meets the Nile, I -- Blood lines : race, sacrifice, and the making of religion -- Interlude 5: Where the Ganges meets the Nile, II -- A tongue between nations : spiritual work, secularism, and the art of crossover -- Part Three: The heights -- Interlude 6: Arlena's haunting -- High science -- Epilogue: the ends of tolerance. 520 $a "J. Brent Crosson's Experiments with Power opens in Trinidad in 2011 with the declaration of a state of emergency. Arguing that the nation's dramatic upsurge in violence was due to "thugs" and "demons," the government arrested thousands of people, mostly black men from lower-class neighborhoods. Under martial law, the police and military enjoyed near-total impunity and yet, to everyone's surprise, six of the seven police officers involved in civilian deaths were actually arrested for murder. The single-word explanation, in the words of a TV host, was obeah, sorcery. Crosson uses this episode to set up an illuminating ethnography of Trinidad's complex religious ecosystem. Obeah is a pejorative term to describe the activities of Afro-Caribbean spiritual workers, ones long associated with retributive force. Obeah was only decriminalized in Trinidad in 2000, and it remains a crime in much of the rest of the Anglophone Caribbean. Crosson examines obeah as a category and interrogates legal, religious, and popular definitions of the work, including those generated by the spiritual workers themselves. In describing their own justice-making practices as work, science, and experiments with power, obeah practitioners challenge the moral and racial foundations of the Western category of religion and offer a way of reframing religious practice as a critique of the exclusionary limits of religion in modernity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Obeah (Cult) $z Trinidad. $z Trinidad. 650 0 $a Trinidadians $x Religion. 650 0 $a Religion and sociology $z Trinidad. $z Trinidad. 650 0 $a Justice $x Religious aspects. 830 0 $a Class 200, new studies in religion 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102015318.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB1E0860EDAA11EA9A34A78C36ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search