Obeah
Obeah(uneori ortografiatObi,ObeyasauObia)[1][2]este un sistem[3][4][5]spiritual healing and justice-making[6]de practici de vindecare spirituală și de justiție care a apărut printre sclavii dinAfrica de VestdinIndiile de Vest.[7][8]Obeah este greu de definit, deoarece nu este un singur set unificat de practici; din punct de vedere istoric, cuvântul „Obeah” nu a fost adesea folosit pentru a descrie practicile proprii.[9]
Note
[modificare|modificare sursă]- ^Williams, Joseph JohnS.J..Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West Indian Witchcraft(1932). Publisher: Lincoln MacVeagh, Dial Press, Inc., New York. Chapter "Origin of Obeah."
- ^Deane, John Bathurst,The Worship of the Serpent(1883), p.163.
- ^Heffernan, Andrew.„Obeah, Christianity, and Jamaica”(în engleză).
- ^„Obeah (religious cult) – Memidex dictionary/thesaurus”.www.memidex.com.Accesat în.
- ^„The Igbo People – Origins & History”.www.faculty.ucr.edu.Accesat în.
- ^https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo50271449.htmlJ. Brent Crosson,Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)
- ^Eltis, David; Richardson, David ().Routes to slavery: direction, ethnicity, and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade.Routledge.p. 88.ISBN0-7146-4820-5.
- ^Payne-Jackson, Arvilla ().Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing.University of the West Indies Press.ISBN9766401233.
- ^Maarit Forde and Diana Paton, "Introduction", inObeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing,ed.Diana Patonand Maarit Forde (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012), 10.