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Talking to the Dead : Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S Manigault-Bryant, 1977- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Talking to the Dead : Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women about?

__Talking to the Dead__ is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith—which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions—and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.

Who reads Talking to the Dead : Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women?

Author

LeRhonda S Manigault-Bryant, 1977-

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822356639

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Science, Christian