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Gesture and Power – Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo de Yolanda Covington–ward

Gesture and Power – Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Autor Yolanda Covington–ward
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 dec 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.
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ISBN-13: 9780822360209
ISBN-10: 0822360209
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Gesture and Power 1

I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies

1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies 37

II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo

2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 71

3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu 107

III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo

4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko 137

5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms 165

IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future

6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society 187

Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power 227

Glossary 233

Notes 235

References 253

Index 275

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