Publications [#237696] of J. Lorand Matory

Articles & Book Chapters

1. Matory, JL. "Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions." Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions. Edited by Palmie, S.  vol. 33 ( 2008.).

   Abstract:
   Whereas most African Americans and most university scholars regard enslavement as a demeaning condition, many African or African-inspired religions represent slaves as powerful and social hierarchy as a normal condition of life. Indeed, Christianity and Islam valorize slavery and the slave is ways that we seldom highlight or recognize as shaping publicly accepted conduct even in recent times.