Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad

“Spiritual Citizenship is a tour-de-force of the twenty-first century kind. Through an examination of the complex ways that new domains of belonging are being negotiated and life worlds made meaningful, Spiritual Citizenship moves the anthropological scholarship on Orisha religious practices to a new level of engagement with spiritual ontologies of citizenship. It proposes a reconceptualization of the way that scholars understand notions of cultural citizenship, insisting that we consider the spiritual epistemologies engaged in sacred meaning

She establishes how the postcolonial performance of Ifá/Orisha practices in Trinidad fostered a sense of belonging that invigorates its practitioners to work toward freedom, equality, and social justice. In Spiritual Citizenship N. Demonstrating how spirituality is inextricable from the political project of black liberation, Castor illuminates the ways in which Ifá/Orisha beliefs and practices offer Trinidadians the means to strengthen belonging throughout the diaspora, access past generations, heal historical wounds, and envision a decolonial future.. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diaspo