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The Militarization Of Prayer In America: White And Native American Spiritual Warfare, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

This article examines how militarism has come to be one of the generative forces of the prayer practices of millions of Christians across the globe. To understand this process, I focus on the articulation between militarization and aggressive forms of prayer, especially the evangelical warfare prayer developed by North Americans since the 1980s. Against the backdrop of the rise in military spending and neoliberal economic policies, spiritual warfare evangelicals have taken on the project of defending the United States on the “spiritual” plane. They have elaborated a complex theology and prayer practice with a highly militarized discourse and set of …

Le Festival Rara En Haiti: Travail Religieux Et Divertissement Public En Temps D'Insécurite Et De Troubles, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, And Evangelical Anti-Dependency In A Haitian Refugee Camp, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Soundscapes Of Disaster And Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, And The Haiti Earthquake, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

This essay first listens, on one hand, to music made by Haitians, for Haitians, close to the epicenter, in the direct aftermath of the Haiti 2010 earthquake. On the other hand, it considers music made by (mostly) North Americans for (mostly) other Americans, in telethon performances far away in New York and Los Angeles and London, weeks after the event. I argue that Haitians used music, and particularly religious singing, self-reflexively, in a culturally patterned way, to orient themselves in time and space, and to construct a frame of meaning in which to understand and act in the devastated Haitian …

Slaves, Cannibals, And Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race And Religion Of Zombies, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

From Slave Revolt To A Blood Pact With Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting Of Haitian History, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Enslaved Africans and Creoles in the French colony of Saint-Domingue are said to have gathered at a nighttime meeting at a place called Bois Caïman in what was both political rally and religious ceremony, weeks before the Haitian Revolution in 1791. The slave ceremony is known in Haitian history as a religio-political event and used frequently as a source of inspiration by nationalists, but in the 1990s, neo-evangelicals rewrote the story of the famous ceremony as a ‘‘blood pact with Satan.’’ This essay traces the social links and biblical logics that gave rise first to the historical record, and then …

The Lucky Ones, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Listening For Geographies: Music As Sonic Compass Pointing Towards African And Christian Diasporic Horizons In The Caribbean, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

Can musical sounds reveal history, or collective identity, or new notions of geography, in different ways than texts or migrating people themselves? This essay offers the idea that the sounds of music, with their capacity to index memories and associations, become sonic points on a cognitive compass that orients diasporic people in time and space. Whereas researchers often focus on the national diasporas produced through the recent shifts and flows of globalization, I illustrate some of the limits of the concept of national and ethnic diaspora to understand how Caribbean groups form networks and imagine themselves to be situated. This …

Globalization And The Religious Production Of Space, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Sacred Stories From The Haitian Diaspora: A Collective Biography Of Seven Vodou Priestesses In New York City, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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The Lucky Ones, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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The Madonna Of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou And Haitian Catholicism In The Age Of Transnationalism, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art Of Magic In Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Love, Sex, And Gender Embodied: The Spirits Of Hatian Vodou, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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The Rite Of Baptism In Haitian Vodou, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Rara As Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, And Warfare, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Catholic, Vodou, And Protestant: Being Haitian, Becoming American, Elizabeth Mcalister, Karen Richman

Elizabeth McAlister

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The Jew In The Haitian Imagination: A Popular History Of Anti-Judaism And Proto-Racism, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Voyage Autour D'Une Bouteille De Sorcier, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Teaching September 11th, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Art Of Magic In Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

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Serving The Spirits Across Two Seas: Vodou Culture In New York And Haiti, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister