Podcast appearances and mentions of Yvonne P Chireau

Jack Dappa Blues Radio Live – Sunday Night EditionEpisode: Spirit Work, Hoodoo & Black Southern Cosmologies: Conjure, Pentecost, and the BluesIn this deeply spiritual and culturally rich episode, Jack Dappa Blues Radio Live explores the sacred intersections of Blues music, Hoodoo, Black Southern Pentecostalism, and Afro-Indigenous folk beliefs. Host and folklorist Lamont Jack Pearley guides listeners through a journey of ancestral memory, ritual practice, and the spiritual systems encoded in the Blues.We honor the life and work of the late Freeman Vines and his haunting “hanging tree guitars,” examine texts like Black Magic by Yvonne P. Chireau, Mojo Workin' by Katrina Hazzard-Donald, and Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South by Tony Kail, and spotlight the special Hoodoo Heritage digital issue of The African American Folklorist, curated by Hess Love.This episode isn't just a conversation—it's a revival of memory, a ritual of sound, and a space for cultural reclamation.

In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition.

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution."Albert J. Raboteau who came to Princeton in 1982, is a specialist in American religious history. His research and teaching have focused on American Catholic history, African-American religious movements and currently, he is working on the place of beauty in the history of Eastern and Western Christian Spirituality. He has written Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, and most recently American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals & Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice. He was the first recipient of the J.W.C. Pennington Award from the University of Heidelberg and last Fall delivered the Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. He retired in June, 2013.Yvonne Chireau is the Department of Religion Chair at Swarthmore College and is an authority on African-based religions such as Santeria and Voodoo in America, religion and healing, and black American religion. She is also interested in religion and comics, manga, and graphic novels. The author of Black Magic: African American Religion and the Conjuring Tradition, she has also co-edited, with Nathaniel Deutsch, Black Zion: African American Religions and Judaism. She received her B.A from Mount Holyoke College, her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Psychic Zya talks the stigma surrounding mysticism, non-Christian spirituality and her relationship with Marilyn Monroe. Listen y'all, it's clear there are dark and light forces working overtime these days. You may find the way things were done before need to be challenged. Zya's Suggested Reading: Black Magic: Religion & The African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau [http://amzn.to/2DHfkyo] I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem by Maryse Conde [http://amzn.to/2DBpnRk] Santeria: the Religion: Faith, Rites, Magic (World Religion and Magic) by Migene González-Wippler [http://amzn.to/2GjuYO4] Follow Zya: Instagram @psychiczya // Book a session: zya.global Follow Chloé: Twitter & IG @Chloe_Hilliard JOIN CHLOE's MAILING LIST >>> chloehilliard.com/#shows

Summary: We discuss the role of hoodoo and folk magic in the African American community with our guest, Professor Yvonne P. Chireau.   Please check out our Patreon page! You can help support the show for as little as a dollar a month, and get some awesome rewards at the same time.  Even if you … Continue reading "Episode 109 – African American Hoodoo with Yvonne Chireau"