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China --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Civilization.

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In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.

Spiritualism --- Caribbean Area --- Religious life and customs.

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Examining modernity and religion this book disputes the widely-spread secularization hypothesis. Using the example of Singapore, as well as comparative data on religion in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, it convincingly argues that rapid social change and modernity have not led here to the decline of religion but on the contrary, to a certain revivalism. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of twenty years, the author analyzes the nature of religious change in a society with a complex ethnic and religious composition. What happens when there are so many religions co-existing in such close proximity? Given the level of religious competition, there is a process of the intellectualization; individuals shift from an unthinking and passive acceptance of religion to one where there is a tendency to search for a religion regarded as systematic, logical and relevant.

Singapore --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs.

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In the current times of increasing public visibility for candomblés, their records in the tombo books and the rhetoric for the preservation of Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, it is not superfluous to take a close look at a not so remote past in which such African-based practices were sometimes silenced, sometimes persecuted and depreciated because they are identified with delay and deviation from European civilizing models. If this retrospective look proves salutary in realizing how much progress has been made, it also alerts us to how much more needs to be done, since the discourses of religious intolerance of yesterday are spreading today, although in new pulpits, with the same harmful effects. In this sense, Edmar Ferreira Santos' book achieves a goal that any research in social history can aim for: that of allowing us to understand in detail the complexity of the past, through it, to illuminate the paradoxes of the present (excerpt taken from the preface of the book).

Bahia (Brazil : State) --- Religious life and customs.

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Hinduism --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Vārānasi (India) --- Religious life and customs.