Table of Contents

• Foreword
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Background
  
• Overview of Book
  
• A Note About Terms
  
• Chapter 1. Sources
  
• Creole Spiritual Traditions: A Bird’s-Eye View
  
• Sexual and Gender Complexity in Yorùbáland?
  
• Other Possible African Influences
  
• Possible Indigenous Influences of the Western Hemisphere
  
• Chapter 2. Divinities and Spirits
  
• Lwa of Vodou
  
• Orishás of Yorùbá-Diasporic Spiritual Traditions
  
• Spirits of Brazil
  
• Chapter 3. Children of the Spirits
  
• Divine Horses
  
• Masisi and Madivin
  
• Bigotry in the Vodou Community
  
• A Bridge of the Spirits
  
• Adés, Ekedes, and Others
  
• Practitioners of Lucumí/Santería and Related Religions
  
• Drag Queens, Transgender Persons, Transsexuals
  
• Prohibitions and Discrimination with Yorùbá-Diasporic and Allied Communities
  
• Divination and Interpretation
  
• Challenges and Transformations
  
• Relationships and Ceremonies of Union
  
• HIV/AIDS, Afro Ashé, and Odô Yá
  
• Notions of Self in African-Inspired Spiritual Traditions
  
• Chapter 4. Snapshots
  
• Practitioners of Vodou
  
• Practitioners of Lucumí/Santería/Regla de Ocha, and Other Cuban- and Puerto Rican-Linked Traditions
  
• Practitioners of Candomblé and Other Brazilian Traditions
  
• Practioners of Orishá Reverence, the Ifá Tradition, and Bridge-Builders
  
• Chapter 5. To Make the Spirit Manifest
  
• Literature
  
• Music
  
• Visual Arts
  
• Conclusion
  
• Appendix A. Questionnaire
  
• Appendix B. Interviews and Correspondence
  
• Glossary
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

About the Author

David Sparks, Randy P Lundschien Conner