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

Khytie K. Brown, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Program in American Studies

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.

Register here: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuf-GgrjkoGN0jjrG_EalLIxU89_pfb60P

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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