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Afro-Queer Journeys: The Intimacies of Spirit Travel in Jamaican Revival Zion Religion

Program in American Studies, Khytie K. Brown

March 1, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:00 pm · Zoom

While considerable research has been conducted on African Diaspora religions, relatively little scholarship addresses Revival Zion — an indigenized and contested African-heritage form of Christianity practiced within Jamaica and Panama and among their diasporas. This talk explores how Revival practitioners craft transnational sensory networks and become spiritual travelers through the ritual of journeying.

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Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies, Department of African American Studies, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Religion
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