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- Álvarez López, Laura, et al.
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Afro-Latin American religious expressions and representations : Stockholm Review of Latin American Studies No. 4, March 2009
- 2009
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The creation and re-creation of Afro-Latin American religious movements and traditions all over the Americas is an ever-changing process. Although popular, intellectual, and judicial actors have defined Afro-Latin American religions as magic, sorcery, or merely folklore, today they are becoming increasingly respected, visible, interrelated, and recognized as national culture. Attempting to discern symbolic meanings of cultural and religious manifestations in Afro-Latin American religious communities – be they in the form of saintly images, speech patterns or narrative – scholars, increasingly seconded by practitioners, have described the ongoing processes of creation and re-creation as acculturation, transculturation, métissage or syncretism and more recently as creolization, hybridization or dialogue. In that sense, a common denominator for a large share of studies of Afro-Latin American religions is that they deal with various aspects of representations. Representing is part of everyday life as people collectively name and define the world and therefore, representations influence the dissemination of knowledge, construction of social identities as well as social transformations. Furthermore, besides their West and Central African antecedents, Afro-Latin American religions share aspects as the colonial past, the multicultural origins, Christian mission and campaigning, as well as movements such as negritude, noirisme, Black Power and transnational youth culture that together have created conflicting expressions and representations of, and within, Afro-Latin American religious communities in Diaspora settings. Such representations, of course, induce responses within Afro-Latin American religious communities. Within these communities – sometimes influenced by scholars and at fora such as international conferences – there are contestations of representations of an African or Afro-American heritage and ongoing debates about the alleged purity of religious practices. The aim of this volume is to explore how Afro-Latin American religions and some of their shared basic features, such as communication with spiritual beings, identities and the use of magic, are represented, self-represented and understood in their various socio-cultural contexts.
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- Álvarez López, Laura, et al.
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Introduction
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In: Stockholm Review of Latin American Studies. - 1654-0204. ; :4, s. 3-10
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Attempting to discern the symbolic meanings of cultural and religious manifestations in Afro-Latin American religious communities – be they in the form of saintly images, speech patterns or narratives – scholars, increasingly seconded by practitioners, have described the on-going processes of creation and re-creation as acculturation, transculturation, métissage or syncretism and more recently as creolization, hybridization or dialogue. In that sense, a common denominator for a large share of studies of Afro-Latin American religions is that they deal with various aspects of representations. Representing is part of everyday life as people collectively name and define the world. In this way, representations influ- ence the dissemination of knowledge as well as the construction of social identities and social transformations.
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- Karvonen, Sara, 1991-, et al.
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Perceptions concerning the MMR Vaccine on a Swedish Internet Platform
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In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift. - Stockholm : Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 96:4, s. 628-638
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Online conversations on the Internet may influence parents’ decision-makingprocess regarding vaccination. Therefore, it is essential to understand whatparents discuss and how they are advised about vaccinations in online com-munities. This qualitative study explores online conversations concerningthe measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine among members of a Swe-dish anti-vaccination community on the social media platform Facebook.We found that negative, erroneous, and pseudoscientific notions of vacci-nations were common and often related to broader understandings of childhealth. Members generally overlooked the beneficial societal aspects of thevaccination. To create trust among parents concerning the MMR vaccine,Swedish healthcare personnel should be given the means and resources topromote the beneficial aspects of the vaccination in relation to parents’ riskperceptions as well as to scientifically based arguments and understandings
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- Ouattara, Syna, 1966, et al.
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Contemporary witchcraft accusations and customary justice
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In: SANT Conference 2022, April 28-30, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- This paper focuses on contemporary witchcraft accusations and customary justice. By using a case study from Côte Ivoire as example, it looks at how supposed witched are detected, how innocence or guilt is established in witchcraft cases, and how witchcraft is understood in relation to state laws and the practice of customary justice. It is shown that divination plays an important role in the customary judicial process, as divination creates the conditions for the settling of communal disputes. It is further shown that communication with the spirit world is essential in the divinatory process, and that the role of diviners is important in the reconciliation process. Overall, divination has an important role to play when bridging the gap between state legality and local norms and practices.
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- Ouattara, Syna, 1966, et al.
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Établir l’innocence ou la culpabilité dans les affaires de sorcellerie contemporaines.
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In: Revue Korhogolaise des Sciences Sociales. ; 4:2, s. 45-71
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- Cet article jette un regard comparatif sur les accusations de sorcellerie et la divination contemporaines en Côte d’Ivoire et au Nicaragua. Il se focalise sur la manière dont les supposées sorcières/sorciers sont détectées, dont l’innocence ou la culpabilité est établie dans les cas de pratiques de sorcellerie, et dont la sorcellerie est comprise et traitée. En Côte d’Ivoire plusieurs groupes socio-culturels, pratiquent souvent des rites de « l’interrogation du cadavre », appelé aussi « port de cercueil » afin de déceler les causes et éventuellement l’auteur de la mort, si celle-ci paraît comme provoque par des pratiques de sorcellerie. Au Nicaragua, les actes de sorcellerie sont établis, et les sorcières sont identifiées, par des guérisseurs qui peuvent utiliser des miroirs, des boules de cristal, des plantes spirituellement « activées » et divers objets dans le cadre du processus divinatoire. L’article montre que, dans les deux ca d’études, dans les faits de pratiques de sorcellerie, la divination est une partie importante du processus judiciaire et de réconciliation coutumière.
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- Rhodin, Rebecca, et al.
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Protecting the Vulnerable? COVID-19 Policy in Sweden
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In: State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Test. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781032343242
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- Sjölander Lindqvist, Annelie, 1970, et al.
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“My Father Was a Reader”: Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden
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In: The Familial Occult: Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography, Red. Alexandra Coțofană. - New York and Oxford : Berghahn. - 9781805391753
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- The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.
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