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Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn (1991)
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Karen McCarthy Brown follows the Haitian Vodou priestess Mama Lola in Brooklyn and traces the family histories that come into her work. The book takes relationships with the spirits and the obligations among living people seriously at the same time. Read it for the way religious knowledge travels with migration and kinship.
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God is red (1973)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Vine Deloria Jr. gives sacred places a central role in his argument about Native religions and Christianity. His distinction between how a tradition organizes time and how it understands place makes the relationship to particular lands harder to overlook. Read it as a pointed argument from a specific author with its own historical stakes.
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Santería (2007)
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Mary Ann Clark draws on scholarship and her experience as a practitioner to explain the Afro-Cuban tradition often called Santería. Her account gives readers ways to understand its rituals and communities in their own context. Start here if the name is familiar but you have heard little about how people actually practice it.
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Path (2016)
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Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh explain classical Chinese philosophers through examples of the small rituals that shape relationships. Their account of Confucian practice makes it worth reading beside histories of worship. It offers one particular interpretation of how actions repeated with other people can change your character.
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