Religion

Barrett, Leonard E. The Rastafarians. Boston: Beacon, 1997.

Bascom, William. Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Bastide, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpretation of Civilizations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Brandon, George. Santería from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Brown, David. "Toward an Ethnoaesthetics of Santería Ritual Arts: The Practice of Altar Making and Gift Exchange." In Santería Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art, edited by Arturo Lindsay, 77–146. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Chevannes, Barry. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. London: Thames and Hudson, 1953.

Desmangles, Leslie G. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Harding, Rachel E. A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Herskovits, M. J. "The World View of an Urban Community: Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana." In The New World Negro, edited by Frances Herskovits, 267–320. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966.

Johnson-Hill, Jack A. I-Sight: The World of Rastafari: An Interpretive Sociological Account of Rastafarian Ethics. Methuen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1995.

Lindsay, Arturo, ed. Santería Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Mason, Michael Atwood. Living Santeria: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

McDaniel, Lorna. The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998.

Métraux, Alfred. Voodoo in Haiti. New York: Schocken, 1978.

Murphy, Joseph. Santería: African Spirits in America, Boston: Beacon, 1993.

——. Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora, Boston: Beacon, 1994.

Murrell, Nathaniel, William Spencer, and Adrian McFarlane, eds. Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Omari, Mikelle Smith. Bahian Candomblé from the Inside to the Outside: The Art and Ritual of Bahian Candomblé. Monograph Series of the Museum of Cultural History, 24. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Ramos, Miguel Willie. "Afro-Cuban Orisha Worship." In Santería Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Art, edited by Arturo Lindsay, 51–76. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

Simpson, George Eaton. Black Religions in the New World. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

Taylor, Patrick, ed. Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Vintage, 1984.

Verger, Pierre. "Rôle joué pa l'etat d'hébétude au cours de l'initiation des novices aux cultes de orisha et vodun." Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, série B, no. 16 (1954): 322–340.

Voeks, Robert A. The Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Walker, Sheila. Ceremonial Spirit Possession in Africa and Afro-America. Leiden: Brill, 1972.

Wittkower, E. D. "Spirit Possession in Haitian Vodun Ceremonies." Acta Psychotherapeutica et Psychosomatica, no. 12 (1964).