Religion in the Kitchen

Pérez, Elizabeth

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“…Ethnographers who have studied contemporary devotional communities and rituals challenge the either/or framework of the everyday and the spectacular, arguing that devotional practices, whether vivid ( Nabhan-Warren, 2005Peña, 2011;Pérez, 2016;Sklar, 2001). Scholars have consistently understood devotion as what women do; their bodies are the sites of devotion, while men are on the sidelines, "roped into" devotional practices (Chinnici, 2005 p. 66).…”

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Catholic devotion in the Americas

Maldonado-Estrada

2019

Religion Compass

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This article surveys scholarly contributions to the study of Catholic devotional practice in the Americas, tracing how historical, sociological, and ethnographic studies have examined the relationship between devotion, gender, and embodiment. Scholars have explored how the saints have been brought to bear on the conditions of daily life including immigration and migration, suffering, and social change. Women's devotion has been at the center of studies of gender and lived religion, as scholars explore the creative and tensile ways, women's religious practice has exceeded the institutional authority and architectural boundaries of the church. This essay ends with a provocation about how the study of men and masculinities can challenge the portrayal of devotion as an exclusively feminine domain and complicate the binary of (male) clerical authorities/women that pervades studies of religious practice and materiality.

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Section: Devotion and Sufferingmentioning

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Catholic devotion in the Americas

Maldonado-Estrada

2019

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“You Were Gonna Leave Them Out?”: Locating Black Women in a Transfeminist Anthropology of Religion

Pérez

2020

Feminist Anthropology

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This article summons a transfeminist anthropology of religion and asserts that such an orientation (with a subfield to match) would be impossible to conceptualize without the scholarship of Black women-feminist, Womanist, and otherwise critically situated. Through the ethnographic analysis of interviews, documentary footage, newspaper reportage, social media, and videos, the article pays tribute to the late Reverend BobbieJean Baker . The article argues that Black transgender Christian women's religious subjectivity encompasses the innovative inhabitation of Black ecclesiastical linguistic codes and gestural idioms; the elaboration of transfeminist biblical hermeneutics and discursive mechanisms of legitimation; and the simultaneous performance of culinary and relational virtuosity. The article further contends that Baker's account of her subjectivity cannot be understood without the insights of

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As If She Were Free

2020

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On July 15, 1594, officials in Puebla de los Ángeles arrested fifty-eightyear-old Margarita de Sossa (b. 1536) on charges of witchcraft (brujería) and hauled her from the city where she then resided, Puebla in New Spain, to the secret jails of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the viceregal capital, México (present day Mexico City). As was typical in inquisitorial trials, Sossa did not know why she had been arrested. 1 However, she soon informed the prosecutors in her trial that she was innocent; her spiteful enemies in Puebla must have furnished any accusations levied against her. Sossa had harbored such enemies, she explained, because some years earlier she had testified against Bargas Machuca, a resident of Puebla, regarding his crime of incest against a young Indigenous Chichimeca girl to whom both Sossa and Machuca served as godparents. When inquisitors in Mexico City eventually heeded Sossa's calls to investigate the previous court case in Puebla where witnesses had supposedly provided false testimonies against her, inquisitors discovered a lengthy divorce

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Religion in the Kitchen

Cited by 66 publications

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Catholic devotion in the Americas

Catholic devotion in the Americas

“You Were Gonna Leave Them Out?”: Locating Black Women in a Transfeminist Anthropology of Religion

As If She Were Free

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