... alcohol Blan foreigner body size Casselberry Judith fete Black feminist ethnography Fashion Spiritual vogue Black gods Religious studies African diaspora Mental health Spirit possession Queer studies Performance studies A silk, sapphire-colored sheet was pinned to the wall behind the altar...

..., bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing Vodou ceremonies from Montreal and New York to Miami and Port-au-Prince. She engaged particularly with a Haitian practitioner and former fashion designer, Manbo Maude, who presided over Vodou temples in Mattapan...

... inspection of physical signs and verbal utterances, Hartford magistrate Joseph Pitkin found that Robinson’s body had been alternately conscripted by Satan and the Holy Spirit. His surprising discovery positions the phenomenon of ecstatic Spirit possession at the heart of the Whitefieldian new birth...